Proposal for a new syscall

[cos]

pitchfork() - daemon fork

Much like fork(), except that the new child automatically also setsid()'s and:
- Has a umask of 0 and working directory "/"
- SIGHUP set to ignore
- Gets new stdin, stdout, stderr handles, all tied to /dev/null

[ Apologizes to non-unix-geek readers. Maybe you'll like my next post. ]

Comments

[sandhawke.livejournal.com]

+1

I had to look up setsid and came across this interesting bit: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2613104/why-fork-before-setsid