Proper way to detach from control terminal?

[Steinar Overbeck Cook]

In article <5333 at brspyr1.BRS.Com>, tim at brspyr1.BRS.Com (Tim Northrup) writes:
> I would like to know if there is a "proper" way to detach a process from
> its   control   terminal  (once  it  has  fork'ed  and  the  parent  has
> terminated).  ..........

There is an excelent article about this in the December issue of
UnixWorld. The article is named "How to write UNIX deamons", the author
of the article is Dave Lennert.


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