How do I daemonize a process?

[Garrett Cooper]

Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote:
> Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
>> Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>> Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>>>    As the subject suggests I'm trying to determine how I can 
>>>> daemonize a C process, outside of using the rc infrastructure, so 
>>>> that it won't exit when the TTY exists. Does anyone know any quick 
>>>> references or examples?
>
>
>>
>> I suggest daemon(3) if it doesn't have to be portable.
>
> Or something like this, if it has to be portable or if you don't want
> to modify C code :
>
>     nohup /pathto/c-application &
>
> You'll eventually need to add things like redirect stdout to /dev/null...
>
>

    Ok, many thanks for the suggestions all :). I'm more than happy not 
to do the double fork(2) solution =\..
-Garrett