Re: disowning a process

[Davy Durham <pubaddr2@davyandbeth.com>]

Thanks for the reply!

Well this seems straight-forward enough, but it doesn't seem to work for 
me.. see if I have everything straight..

#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
    if(fork())
    { /* parent */
       sleep(15);
    }
    else
    { /* child */
       printf("setpgrp returned: %d\n",setpgrp());
       sleep(5);
    }
}

I run the program.. setpgrp is returning zero.. then I quickly look at 
the ps listing.. the child's pid is still the parent's, but that may be 
okay..     Then after 5 seconds when the child exits.. I do the ps again 
and I do still see that the child is now defunct.. the desired effect is 
that the child would go away because I don't care what the exit status 
was.  I was thinking that if init could become the parent of the newly 
forked child, then it would clean it up when it exits.

Any ideas?

-- Davy

Jeff.Fellin@rflelect.com wrote:

>Davy,
>After you fork the process, use setpgrp() to make the process the head of
>it's own process group.
>check man -S2 setpgrp for details.
>
>  
>

>Hi,  I'm not sure if there's a posix way of doing this, but wanted to
>check if there is a way in linux.
>
>I want to have a daemon that fork/execs a new process, but don't want
>(for various reasons) the responsibility for cleaning up those process
>with the wait() function family.   I'm assuming that if the init process
>became the parent of one of these forked processes, then it would clean
>them up for me (is this assumption true?).    Besides the daemon process
>exiting, is there a way to disown the process on purpose so that init
>inherits it?
>
>Thanks,
>   Davy
>
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