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by pmahoney 3903 days ago
The freebsd daemon tool is exactly what I'm talking about. Debian has start-stop-daemon [1]. Process supervisors like daemontools create daemons simply by fork+exec by virtue of the parent process already being a daemon. There's no reason for every service to implement its own daemonization routine.

[1] http://man.cx/start-stop-daemon%288%29