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

As others mentioned, fork() is how to do it on *nix. You can get fork() on Windows by using MingW or Cygwin libraries. But those will require you to switch to using GCC as your compiler.

In pure Windows world, you'd use CreateProcess (or one of its derivatives CreateProcessAsUser, CreateProcessWithLogonW).