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libdaemon is a lightweight C library that eases the writing of UNIX
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daemons. It consists of the following parts:
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* A wrapper around fork() which does the correct daemonization
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procedure of a process
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* A wrapper around syslog() for simpler and compatible log output to
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Syslog or STDERR
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* An API for writing PID files
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* An API for serializing UNIX signals into a pipe for usage with
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select() or poll()
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* An API for running subprocesses with STDOUT and STDERR redirected
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to syslog.
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APIs like these are used in most daemon software available. It is not
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that simple to get it done right and code duplication is not a goal.
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