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Add -d option to fork into background as a daemon #586

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This is useful on systems like OpenBSD which don't have a service
manager like systemd. The daemon() call is available on Linux and
OpenBSD, not sure about other systems.

This is useful on systems like OpenBSD which don't have a service
manager like systemd. The daemon() call is available on Linux and
OpenBSD, not sure about other systems.
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For portability, please avoid using daemon() if possible. Go through a standard SysV daemon creation process is recommended. Or at least include unistd.h properly when necessary.

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For portability, please avoid using daemon() if possible. Go through a standard SysV daemon creation process is recommended.

Portability to what though? I guess it's only proprietary Unixes that don't have daemon() but do have all the other POSIX APIs.

Or at least include unistd.h properly when necessary.

Yes OK. It's in stdlib.h on Mac/BSD but unistd.h on Linux.

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To be honest, I like this feature.

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