Launching And Detaching

I'm using one simple program to launch some daemons. When I launch a
program, I use backticks. (This is all on Linux, in bash, btw.) I've
added "2>&1 >/dev/null &" to the command line, so it's like this:

`/path/to/program 2>&1 >/dev/null &`;

I've noticed that if I include the '&' so the program detaches from the
shell, if I kill the launching program, the child process survives. I've
also tried this by forking first:

if (!fork()) {
`/path/to/program 2>&1 >/dev/null &`;
exit;
}

I had the hope that if I forked and launched like this, once all the
programs were launched, the launching program would exit. It doesn't. Is
there a way I can launch a program, then have the first program exit, so
it's no longer using that bash instance (without killing it)?

Thanks!

Hal

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