is it possible to create an orphaned process?

[landon kelsey]

fork will do it

daemon thread also under posix threads
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> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 19:40:32 -0700
> From: fry.kun at gmail.com
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: is it possible to create an orphaned process?
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have an odd application that has threads which hang around until all
> child processes have finished executing.
> I'd like to create a background process that isn't a child of said
> thread, so that the thread can exit.
> 
> Can this be done cleanly?
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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