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From: Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com>
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To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: init runs with console as control terminal?
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> Bug the authors to fix it?  daemon(3) is provided for a reason!
> 
> Here's my version of a simple daemonizing program....  Neither
> TIOCNOTTY nor setpgid() is sufficient to detach from a terminal
> session in a POSIX environment; setsid() is required.  daemon(3) does
> a nice job of encapsulating this along with the other more obvious
> prerequisites.
> 
Time for a daemon(1)? I'd like to have a more flexible approach towards
closing of stdin/out/err, maybe something similar to what Matt did, or 
similar to nohup: close it iff it's a tty.

-lq


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