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From: Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM>
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Subject: A program for launching daemons?
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I've written a small program, which is basically does a getopt(), 
daemon() and execv(). I find this useful for launching shell scripts like 
/usr/local/etc/rc.news which hang around in the background.

Is anybody going to get upset if I import it into -current?  (I call it 
"daemon" on my systems, perhaps an alternative name might be "launch"?)

Cheers,
-Peter