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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:35:27 -0500
To: Kaatunut <kaatunut AT iki DOT fi>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: (detached) background (console) processes
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At 10:18 AM 1/15/2001, Kaatunut wrote:
>How do I create a console (well, actually, console-less) process that I
>can leave running at background- that is, no need for terminal? Under
>unix, I would just do
>
>if (fork()) { exit(0); }
>// I'm in background now
>
>but as I compile that on not-so-old gcc 2.95.2 on win32 (cygwin default
>compiler or whatever, not mingw32) and run it, the terminal won't detach
>and let me quit. And if I kill it, the child dies also.
>
>I tried searching archives but found nothing useful; however, from one
>post over two years old I got the impression I should have to
>detach something. How does this happen?
>
>  -Kaatunut



Take a look at the documentation for CreateProcess() in the MSDN and the
code in winsup/cygwin/fork.cc.  You should be able to figure out something
to do what you want from this.



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