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+.\" @(#)daemon.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
+.\" Added mentioning of glibc weirdness wrt unistd.h. 5/11/98, Al Viro
+.\" Translated into German by Dennis Stampfer <kontakt@dstampfer.de>
+.\"
+.TH DAEMON 3 "7. September 2002" "" "Bibliotheksfunktionen"
+.SH BEZEICHNUNG
+daemon \- im Hintergrund ausführen
+.SH "ÜBERSICHT"
+.B #include <unistd.h>
+.sp
+.BI "int daemon (int " nochdir ", int " noclose ");
+.SH BESCHREIBUNG
+Die
+.BR daemon ()
+Funktion gibt einem Programm die Möglichkeit, sich selbst vom Terminal in
+den Hintergrund zu setzen und dort weiter als System-Daemon zu laufen.
+.PP
+.BR daemon ()
+wechselt das aktuelle Arbeitsverzeichnis nach root (``/''), sofern
+.I nochdir
+nicht 0 ist.
+.PP
+.BR daemon ()
+leitet die Standardausgabe, Standardeingabe und die Fehlerausgabe nach
+.I /dev/null
+um, sofern
+.I noclose
+nicht 0 ist.
+.SH FEHLER
+Tritt ein Fehler auf, gibt die Funktion \-1 zurück und setzt
+.I errno
+entsprechend auf Fehler von
+.BR fork (2)
+und
+.BR setsid (2).
+.SH GESCHICHTE
+Die Funktion war erstmals in BSD4.4 zu finden.
+.SH SIEHE AUCH
+.BR fork (2),
+.BR setsid (2).