On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 01:53:44AM +0200, Laurent Bercot wrote:

> it comes from ancient Unix times when we
> did not know better, and the daemon() function should either
> disappear into oblivion, or have a place in the museum of medieval
> programming as an example of how not to write Unix software.

That museum could actually be useful. Especially if it were to explain
why these once-advocated techniques were used, why they should not be,
and what to do instead.

Maybe this should be a curated wiki?

-- hendrik