Very Computer

Hi,

Has anyone tried starting a daemon from a cgi program. I wrote
a daemon and it loads fin from the command line. The parent
process exits as it should and the child keeps running. But
when I try calling the program as a cgi program, the cgi
program (that is the parent process) doesn't seem to exit
until the child also exits. Does anyone know what I need to
do or how I need to write my daemon which is also a cgi
program. Now my browser hangs until the daemon terminates
instead of returning really quickly - ow at least that is
what I have expected.

I tried using nested forks and setsid() but didn't seem to
affect anything.

All help would be greatly appriciated.
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        /* NOTE: you will also need to avoid any other files that you
         * intentionally have open...
         */
        for (i=3; i<1024; ++i) close(i);

Perhaps in conjuction with:
        freopen("/dev/null", "r", stdin);
        freopen("/dev/null", "w", stdout);
        freopen("/dev/null", "w", stderr);

Ugly, but bug/misfeature work-arounds usually are...

                --Ken Pizzini