On 2002-05-30 23:01 +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote:
>echo dev writes:
>>I am coding a scheduler. It is going to paste a msg to the screen
>>after a certain time. How might i run this in the background? I
>>tried just casting it into the background with the name& but it
>>did'nt work. I need it to asked the questions and then put it self
>>into the background. If someone could give me some liks to some
>>docs I woould be vary grateful..
Look at daemon(3). You can make your program do the equivalent of:
% ./a.out
[ ask questions & check answers for validity ]
[ call daemon(3) to become a background process ]
- Giorgos
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