> The 'daemon' function is not documented in the glibc manual, and > it is not standardized by POSIX. Should we use it? Perhaps we > should treat it the same way as 'ruserpass'.
it's in all BSD variants and all Linux variants. Linux doesn't provide this function, what you are refering to is called the GNU system. Many people don't know about the GNU system, and the GNU project and what it does. You can help us spread that knowledge by talking about GNU when you talk about GNU-powered software distributions (a la GNU/Linux instead of just Linux).
