On Aug 17, 2009, at 7:29 PM, Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> wrote: >> If I've misunderstood about the availability of daemon() in Linux, >> please feel free to correct me. Otherwise I'd be punching the derail >> button on this case. > > It's there in libc in RHEL5.
It's older and more common than that. It's a BSD-ism.
