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Date:      Mon, 23 Jul 2007 01:56:36 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
To:        Jose-Marcio.Martins@ensmp.fr
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How do I daemonize a process?
Message-ID:  <46A46D44.9050504@u.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <46A46CE2.4060607@ensmp.fr>
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Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote:
> Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
>> Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>> Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>>>    As the subject suggests I'm trying to determine how I can 
>>>> daemonize a C process, outside of using the rc infrastructure, so 
>>>> that it won't exit when the TTY exists. Does anyone know any quick 
>>>> references or examples?
>
>
>>
>> I suggest daemon(3) if it doesn't have to be portable.
>
> Or something like this, if it has to be portable or if you don't want
> to modify C code :
>
>     nohup /pathto/c-application &
>
> You'll eventually need to add things like redirect stdout to /dev/null...
>
>

    Ok, many thanks for the suggestions all :). I'm more than happy not 
to do the double fork(2) solution =\..
-Garrett



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