Re: Process management

[Linac Project Team <linac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > 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. 

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