Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 01:56:36 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Jose-Marcio.Martins@ensmp.fr Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I daemonize a process? Message-ID: <46A46D44.9050504@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <46A46CE2.4060607@ensmp.fr> References: <46A46910.9080901@u.washington.edu> <46A4699C.5080906@u.washington.edu> <46A46A40.1080004@fs.ei.tum.de> <46A46CE2.4060607@ensmp.fr>
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Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote:
> Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
>> Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>> Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>>> 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?
>
>
>>
>> I suggest daemon(3) if it doesn't have to be portable.
>
> Or something like this, if it has to be portable or if you don't want
> to modify C code :
>
> nohup /pathto/c-application &
>
> You'll eventually need to add things like redirect stdout to /dev/null...
>
>
Ok, many thanks for the suggestions all :). I'm more than happy not
to do the double fork(2) solution =\..
-Garrett
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