svn commit: r230869 - head/usr.sbin/daemon

[Andrey Zonov]

On 06.02.2012 19:25, John Baldwin wrote:
>>
>> My expectation is that as long as parent process holds pidfile
>> descriptor open and locked, the pidfile should remain locked even after
>> fork(2)/execve(2). Worth checking, though.
>
> Yes, if the daemon process hung around that would work.  Note that I think
> you would need to do a double-fork for that to work though since users
> expect daemon to return instantly and not need to be put in the background.
>

It would be also nice to have an option for automatically respawn the 
child.  This option has GNU version of daemon.  What do you think?

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Andrey Zonov