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This is actually the arrangement suggested in the previous section, which gives clues as to the required answer. What you do is to make the process into a daemon set up the socket and then go into a loop accepting client connections. Each time you get a client connection you fork a child process to deal with it while the parent loops back to accept another connection.
The pseudo code could be:
```
	Setup current process as a daemon (fork, setsid, fork etc.)
	Create a socket on a well known port
	while (true)
		Get a client connection
		if (fork()==0)
			Close parent's copy of client connection 
		else
			In child, deal with client request
			exit child process 
		endif
		endwhile
```
You will see essentially this solution used in the Tiny Daemon case study in the next tutorial.
The solution to this problem just requires you to set up your launch command as a daemon to make the process run as a daemon and then use exec() to change the program in the daemon process to the one given on the command line. This can be done as follows:
```
	main(int argc, char **argv) 
	{
		Setup process as a daenon (fork, setsid, fork etc.) 

		execvp(argv [1], &argv[1]);
	}
```

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