Re: [Xenomai-core] system() question

[Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>]

Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> Stéphane ANCELOT wrote:
> 
>>I tried it, but did not help, I manged to do the trick using 
>>start-stop-daemon
> 
> 
> If I understand correctly the problem you have, it is not related at all
> with Xenomai. What you want is to make your application a real daemon.
> The easy way to do this is to call the glibc function named "daemon" the
> hard way is to call fork twice, call setsid and setpgrp.
> start-stop-daemon will not do the trick.
> 

It is enough to fork only once, to call setsid in the child and call
_exit in the father. That is what the daemon function does. Anyway, this
is basic unix knowledge, for which you will get more acurate details at
other places.

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                                                 Gilles Chanteperdrix