hi all...
we are trying to make the process run in background....like '&' is used in shell programming...is there any command or a function in 'C Programming' that makes a process run in background????

Pleeeeeeease help us

trying from more than a week

This should do the trick :-
man 3 daemon

Hi..!

just take a look at this code...!

in shell programming...

it was something like...

!#bin/bash
while(true)
do
echo "Done"
done &

pid = $!
sleep 60 && kill TERM pid

i just tried converting a part of it to C....and i have a problem with that &...!


#include <stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <signal.h>
int kill( pid_t pid, int sig );
int main()
{
while(1)
{
printf("\nDone");
}
sleep(60) && kill(getpid(),15);
}

and u told daemon will do that job...is it like within daemon function..this while should be put???

Not getting it

Not quite ... read the man page for daemon. The function will fork the program and detach it from the controlling terminal. At that point, the process is and will remain in the background. Anything it does will happen in the background (i.e. you should redirect output and error to files, as you'll no longer have a controlling tty). You might find this page along with the man pages of fork and setsid helpful. This is a bit confusing in C at first (not as easy as in the shell, although behind the scenes the shell is doing the same stuff), so you really need to understand how fork works. In other words, there's no getting around reading some documentation.

Look at the fork() function. If it returns 0, you are the child. Otherwise it returns the PID of the child.

http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/man...a-Process.html

A daemon is a system program that runs in the background such as sshd. I dont think that is what you are asking about.