is it possible to create an orphaned process?

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:40:32 -0700
Konstantin Svist <fry.kun at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?

Yes

man 3 daemon