Austin S. Hemmelgarn posted on Tue, 12 Jul 2016 08:25:24 -0400 as excerpted:
> As far as daemonization, I have no man-page called daemon in section > seven, yet I have an up-to-date upstream copy of the Linux man pages. My > guess is that this is a systemd man page, which in turn means it does a > bunch of stuff that's only needed for system services on systemd based > systems. Your guess would appear to be correct, as my systemd package includes a daemon manpage, here (gentoo). As for the general debate, while I'm a systemd user, I definitely support it remaining optional, which means things need to work without it, too. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html