Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: disowning a process | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Fri, 27 May 2005 21:57:22 +0100 |
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On Gwe, 2005-05-27 at 19:55, Davy Durham wrote: > Cool.. I looked at the daemon function and I might be able to use it..
Using daemon() is generally wise - it is basically a double fork and then one exits so that the orphan child becomes owned by init. However it also knows about platform specific considerations like setpgrp v setsid, whether an ioctl must be done to disown the controlling tty etc which can be fairly OS generation specific.
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