Re: disowning a process

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 14:54 -0400, J. Scott Kasten wrote:

> 
> Sounds like a job for the Richard Stevens "Advanced Programming in the 
> UNIX Environment" book.  Check out chapter 13, "daemon processes".  It 
> explains the subtleties of process groups, signals, inheritance, etc.. 
> better than most.

Definitely a good read. God rest his soul.  But it doesn't let you know
that there's already a daemon function out there.  But what daemon does
is pretty much a complete version of Stevens' example Program 13.1
"daemon_init".

Davy, I recommend that if you don't already have that book, get it.

-- Steve


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