David Holland wrote: >> I would say so, especially since that would mean the child's parent is > > no longer the process that forked it (which could break other use >> cases). > > That depends on how you implement detaching, but I suppose ultimately > it's important for getppid() to revert to 1 at the point the parent > exits (neither before, nor after, nor never) so some kind of linkage > needs to remain. > > Bah. > > I guess it's time to invent yet another different interface to > fork-and-really-detach.
No time to experiment today, but from the descriptions it sounds as if a double fork would work, with the child exiting immediately after forking the grandchild? Kind of unpleasant, but nothing new needed? --Terry
