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DAEMON(3)						     Library Functions Manual							 DAEMON(3)

NAME
daemon - run in the background SYNOPSIS
int daemon(nochdir, noclose) int nochdir, noclose; DESCRIPTION
The daemon function is for programs wishing to detach themselves from the controlling terminal and run in the background as system daemons. Unless the argument nochdir is non-zero, daemon changes the current working directory to the root (``/''). Unless the argument noclose is non-zero, daemon will redirect standard input, standard output and standard error to ``/dev/null''. ERRORS
The function daemon may fail and set errno for any of the errors specified for the library functions fork(2). SEE ALSO
fork(2), ioctl(2). HISTORY
The daemon function first appeared in 4.4BSD. 4th Berkeley Distribution February 3, 1995 DAEMON(3)

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DAEMON(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							 DAEMON(3)

NAME
daemon - run in the background SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h> int daemon(int nochdir, int noclose); Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)): daemon(): _BSD_SOURCE || (_XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE < 500) DESCRIPTION
The daemon() function is for programs wishing to detach themselves from the controlling terminal and run in the background as system dae- mons. If nochdir is zero, daemon() changes the calling process's current working directory to the root directory ("/"); otherwise, the current working directory is left unchanged. If noclose is zero, daemon() redirects standard input, standard output and standard error to /dev/null; otherwise, no changes are made to these file descriptors. RETURN VALUE
(This function forks, and if the fork(2) succeeds, the parent calls _exit(2), so that further errors are seen by the child only.) On suc- cess daemon() returns zero. If an error occurs, daemon() returns -1 and sets errno to any of the errors specified for the fork(2) and set- sid(2). CONFORMING TO
Not in POSIX.1-2001. A similar function appears on the BSDs. The daemon() function first appeared in 4.4BSD. NOTES
The glibc implementation can also return -1 when /dev/null exists but is not a character device with the expected major and minor numbers. In this case errno need not be set. SEE ALSO
fork(2), setsid(2) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.53 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. GNU
2009-12-05 DAEMON(3)
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