[fpc-pascal]How to daemonize a program?

Matt Emson memsom at interalpha.co.uk
Mon Jan 12 11:34:58 CET 2004


> Hello all,
>
> I know I can start a program with & at the end and will run in the
> background. Is there a way to do this without the & symbol in Linux?


basically you fork the process, set session id to new process, signal if
needed, and then fork again and let the initial process return.

Matt






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