Proper way to detach from control terminal?

[Rich Salz]

 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).

In <908 at auspex.UUCP> guy at auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
 Well, it depends on which flavor of UNIX you're using....
 Dave Lennert (formerly of HP, now of Sequent - right, Dave?) wrote a
 fairly detailed paper on "how to write a daemon", going into details
 about these sorts of things on various UNIX flavors.  I think it
 appeared in one of the UNIX magazines within the past few months.

Dave's article (which is excellent!) appaeared in \fI;login:\fP
the Usenix newsletter.  Volume 12, number 4 (July/August 1987).

Back issues might be available, contact uunet!usenix!office.
	/rich $alz
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