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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 01:38:40 -0700
From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: How do I daemonize a process?
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    As the subject suggests I'm trying to determine how I can daemonize 
a C process, outside of using the rc infrastructure, so that it won't 
exit when the TTY exists. Does anyone know any quick references or examples?
Thanks,
-Garrett