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

I'm not sure about Windows, but on UNIX-like systems, you can fork() then setsid() the forked process to move it into a new process group that is not connected to a terminal.