A daemon is actually a process that is designed to run in the background,
detatched from any terminal, as its normal mode of operation. If you need
examples, you (probably) have many on your system: syslogd, inetd, sendmail,
crond should all be familiar examples to you. A nice feature of the Open
Source concept is that the source code for all of them should be available,
probably on the CD set you used to install Linux.
At 02:18 PM 2/24/99 +0200, Bogdan Taru wrote:
> I've got an 'exotic' programming problem for you: how can I make a
>daemon? I know that a daemon is a child process who's parent died
>(sounds morbid, doesn't it?...). I've tried to build something on this,
>but without much success (I don't get the shell prompt until the child
>dies too...). And I thought maybe you can help me with examples or even
>sources for existing daemons...
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