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

[John T Kohl]

In article <11388 at pixar.UUCP> bp at pixar.UUCP (Bruce Perens) writes:


> Here's how I would divorce a process from a controlling tty. Feel
> free to criticize and correct this:

> ...
> 	count = NFDS;
> ...

Modern Unixes have a call to tell you the # of file descriptors:

	count = getdtablesize();

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