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? 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...
>
>Thanks & Have fun,
>bogdan
I'm not up on my daemons, but I understand that in Linux, every process
must have a parent. If a parent dies, the inetd process "adopts" the
orphaned process.
--
Arandir...
