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From: jet@lavaca.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend)
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Subject: Firing up a process and not wait()ing on it..
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Date: 19 Dec 89 19:10:32 GMT
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Maybe there's an obvious answer to this that I didn't hit while
RTFM'ing.  While in process foo, I want to crank up process bar
and have it run independently of foo.  system("bar &") doesn't do
the trick, as a wait() is still called for the parent shell of bar (it
seems that's what happening, at least).

Any suggestions?  No flames, please, this is my first foray into doing
sockets/networking/daemon code...
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