Re: Process management

[Rolland Santimano <rolland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Arun Sharma wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 03:02:48PM +0530, Linac Project Team wrote:
> > > > Does any one out there know of any system call using which the root can
> > > > claim a process to be his own.
> > >
> > > Not that I know of. Can you not do what you want to without becoming the
> > > owner of the process ?
> >
> > The thing is that I want to make the process under question a group
> > leader. This separates it from a tty and hence it won't terminate even if
> > the user disconnects.
> 
> man nohup
> 
>         -Arun
> 
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also check setpgrp() - better still read the section on daemons in
stevens' unix n/w pgmming.

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