Hello all,
I know I can start a program with & at the end and will run in the background. Is there a way to do this without the & symbol in Linux?
Thanks
-pa
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How to daemonize a program?
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- James Mills 1
- Marco van de Voort 1
- Matt Emson 1
- Paul Aviles 1
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I know I can start a program with & at the end and will run in the background. Is there a way to do this without the & symbol in Linux?
Yes. The examples packaged with Free Pascal have a daemon.pp demo. That works (and also on FreeBSD iirc)
I know I can start a program with & at the end and will run in the background. Is there a…
Paul Aviles wroteHello all, I know I can start a program with & at the end and will run in the background. Is there a way to do this without the & symbol in Linux?
have a look at the daemon.pp example in the examples.
cheers
James
I know I can start a program with & at the end and will run in the background. Is there a…
Hello all, I know I can start a program with & at the end and will run in the background. Is there a way to do this without the & symbol in Linux?
basically you fork the process, set session id to new process, signal if needed, and then fork again and let the initial process return.
Matt