Re: disowning a process

[Alan Cox]

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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