How to divorce a process from the controlling tty (was syslogd.c)

Karl Heuer karl at haddock.ima.isc.com
Thu Jun 14 07:06:47 AEST 1990


In article <JTKOHL.90Jun11153217 at lycus.MIT.EDU> jtkohl at MIT.EDU (John T Kohl) writes:
>Modern Unixes have a call to tell you the # of file descriptors:
>	count = getdtablesize();

Actually, in *modern* Unixes it's done with sysconf().



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