On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Bogdan Taru wrote:
#
# Hi everyone,
#
# I've got an 'exotic' programming problem for you: how can I make a
# daemon?
--- dumbdaemon.c ---
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(void) {
int pid;
if (pid=fork()) {
// parent!
printf("Child process is %u.\n",pid);
exit(0);
}
// child!
sleep(3600);
exit(0);
}
Of course this does absolutely nothing (unless you count waiting one hour
'something').
G'day!
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