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? > Thanks, > -Garrett
The proper way to do this is to use the setsid() function. If it is somehow not available on one of your target system, some people use a hack which consists in calling fork() two times to daemonize the process; that is supposed to work too. Cheers, Maxime _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
