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.
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Portability to what though? I guess it's only proprietary Unixes that don't have
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To be honest, I like this feature. |
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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.