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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 to
68 function may fail and set
70 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
95 error have been closed before the program was run.
98 should therefore either call
100 before opening any files or sockets, or verify that any file
101 descriptors obtained have values greater than 2.
105 function temporarily ignores
109 to prevent a parent session group leader's calls to
113 from prematurely terminating the child process.