On Sunday, November 21, 2010 17:23:42 Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > > 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.
no, it's really not. daemon() can be found in all usable C libraries that run under Linux that i'm aware of. only one of which is GNU (glibc). > 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). not a chance. indoctrinate someone else. -mike
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