[rescue] Force detachment of background process?

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Eric Webb wrote:

> While perl script C is being backgrounded, it isn't being detached from the
> parent.  How can I force this?  The only idea I have is for korn script B to
> nohup background perl script C, then look up it's own process # and kill
> itself.  Would that sever the connection of child C back to parent A?

Can't you have the perl script do the typical Unix thing of forking,
detaching, and forking again?  That's what your average daemon does.

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