I tend to think this is the wrong way to go about daemonizing a process; it does the relatively easy but fiddly stuff for you, leaving you still to manage proce

I tend to think this is the wrong way to go about daemonizing a process; it does the relatively easy but fiddly stuff for you, leaving you still to manage process monitoring. Better to have the process neither know not care about its daemonized status, which is not really core program logic, and have the process monitor manage daemonization, à la http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html