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

[Karl Heuer]

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().