Gary Winiger wrote:
>> DESCRIPTION
> 
>>      If the nochdir option is other than zero the working directory will
>>      not be changed to the root directory, otherwise it will be.
> 
>       Is this / or ~root?

/

>> RETURN VALUES
>>      Upon successful completion, daemon() returns 0. Otherwise it returns -1.
> 
>       What are the failure modes?  Is errno set?

daemon() returns -1 only if either fork() or setsid() fail. In that case 
errno will be set to the values specified in fork(2) and setsid(2).

>       Clarifications in the man page would be helpful.

Will do.


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