Harlan Stenn <stenn@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Because different OSes need slightly different tweaks to daemonize and > it can be a *serious* PITA to track them all. If an OS family provides > me with a way to do this then sometimes I am very happy to take > advantage of this fact and save myself from a large learning curve that > must accomodate different versions of said OS family. Besides, using widely available functions like daemon whenever possible makes it easier to read the code and understand what's going on. If I see an invocation of daemon in someone's source, I run man daemon and get detailed information on exactly what it does, way more detailed than people are usually able/willing to write for internal functions. -- Russ Allbery (rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
