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28 .so ../defs.man \" @@@PRE@@@
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31 .TH daemonize 3mLib "6 January 2007" "Straylight/Edgeware" "mLib utilities library"
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37 daemonize \- become a background process
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43 .B "#include <mLib/daemonize.h>"
45 .B "void detachtty(void);"
46 .B "int daemonize(void);"
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54 function causes the current process to become a background process. It
55 detaches from its controlling terminal and arranges never to acquire
56 another controlling terminal. If it fails for some reason (probably
63 on success, it returns 0.
67 does half of the job of
69 it detaches from its controlling terminal, and calls
73 so that it can't acquire a new controlling terminal in future. Errors
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84 Mark Wooding, <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
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