How can a C/C++ program put itself into background?

Question

What\'s the best way for a running C or C++ program that\'s been launched from the command line to put itself into the background, equivalent to if the user had launched fro

Answer 1

Backgrounding a process is a shell function, not an OS function.

If you want an app to start in the background, the typical trick is to write a shell script to launch it that launches it in the background.

#! /bin/sh
/path/to/myGuiApplication &