Re: disowning a process

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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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