Re: disowning a process

[Davy Durham <pubaddr2@davyandbeth.com>]

Cool.. I looked at the daemon function and I might be able to use it..

However, I compiled your code... seems to work.. but where is the wait() 
done on the middle parrent so that it isn't left defunct?

Steven Rostedt wrote:

>Try man daemon.
>
>The way I use to do it was simply do a double fork. That is
>(simplified)...
>
>if ((pid = fork()) < 0) {
>	perror("fork");
>} else if (!pid) {
>	/* child */
>	if ((pid = fork()) < 0) {
>		perror("child fork");
>		exit(-1);
>	} if (pid) {
>		/* child parent */
>		/* Here we detach from the child */
>		exit(0);
>	}
>	/* Now this code is a child running almost as a daemon
>		with init as the parent. */
>	setsid();
>	/* Now the child is completely detached from the original
>	   parent */
>	/* ... daemon code here ... */
>	exit(0);
>}
>
>/* parent code here */
>
>-- Steve
>
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