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Old 07-26-2008
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Can a daemon process have a ppid other than 1 ?
Any process guarded from SIGHUP signal as nohup process and detached from controlling terminal will have a ppid of 1, but they are not daemonized.

How about this - to check for the masking permissions ? I know its not a standard practice that needs to be followed before daemonizing a process but its more of a practice.