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Old 11-03-2007
programatic ways to create background processes in C/C++

How can we create a background process programmatically?

One way I know of is to fork() and exit from the parent process, leaving the child running. It will run as a background process.

I would like to know if there are any other ways.

In perticular how are daemon processes created?
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Old 11-03-2007
this is a good link to create daemon process

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