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NAME

6       daemon - run in the background
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SYNOPSIS

9       int
10       daemon(nochdir, noclose)
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DESCRIPTION

14       The  daemon  function is for programs wishing to detach themselves from
15       the controlling terminal and run in the background as system daemons.
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17       Unless the argument nochdir is non-zero,  daemon  changes  the  current
18       working directory to the root (``/'').
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20       Unless  the argument noclose is non-zero, daemon will redirect standard
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ERRORS

24       The function daemon may fail and set errno for any of the errors speci‐
25       fied for the library functions fork(2).
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SEE ALSO

28       fork(2), ioctl(2).
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HISTORY

31       The daemon function first appeared in 4.4BSD.
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