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37 .Nd run in the background
43 .Fn daemon "int nochdir" "int noclose"
47 function is for programs wishing to detach themselves from the
48 controlling terminal and run in the background as system daemons.
54 changes the current working directory to the root
61 will redirect standard input, standard output and standard error
65 On return 0 indicates success with \-1 indicating error.
71 for any of the errors specified for the library functions
81 function first appeared in
88 will close the first three file descriptors and redirect them to
90 Normally, these correspond to standard input, standard output and
92 However, if any of those file descriptors refer to something else they
93 will still be closed, resulting in incorrect behavior of the calling program.
94 This can happen if any of standard input, standard output or standard error
95 have been closed before the program was run.
98 should therefore make sure to either call
100 before opening any files or sockets or, alternately, verifying that
101 any file descriptors obtained have a value greater than 2.
106 as part of its tty detachment mechanism.
107 Consequently the process id changes when
112 can not be reliably waited upon until