Re: [bug-inetutils] Re: [PATCH 3/4] use daemon from the C library when possible

[Mike Frysinger]

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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