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PRIV_DAEMON(3)                    Subroutines                   PRIV_DAEMON(3)


NAME

       priv_daemon - detach from the controlling terminal


SYNOPSIS

       #include <privman.h>

       int priv_daemon(int nochdir, int noclose);


DESCRIPTION

       priv_daemon causes the process to detach from the controlling terminal,
       and run in the background as system daemons.  A Privman managed program
       should call this in place of calling the daemon subroutine.

       The arguments nochdir and noclose have the same meaning here as in the
       normal daemon method.  See daemon(3) for more details.

       As a (hopefully) irrelevant detail, normally daemon forks, and the
       child continues running while the original process exits.  Since
       priv_init(3) already forked, priv_daemon causes the privilege server to
       detach from the controlling terminal instead.


FILES

       ${prefix}/etc/privman.d/ appname
              The application's configuration file.  See privman_conf(5) for
              more details.  priv_daemon requires that the configuration allow
              the fork permission.


BUGS

       priv_fdreopen() has not yet been implemented, and might be needed to
       properly manage some of the cases.


AUTHOR

       Network Associates. Send email to <privman@nailabs.com>


SEE ALSO

       priv_bind(3) priv_execve(3) priv_fopen(3) priv_fork(3) priv_init(3)
       privman_conf(5) priv_open(3) priv_pam(3) priv_rerunas(3) privman(7)

Unix                            SEPTEMBER 2002                  PRIV_DAEMON(3)

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