Rainer Weikusat:
...
> I'd greatly appreciate if someone who thinks he has the time would read
> through the man pages
...

launch - execute a command as background process

Not a native speaker, but shouldn't there be an "a" between "as" and
"background"

->
launch - execute a command as a background process

///

Is there any rationale why not just using daemon(3) ?

Regards,
/Karl Hammar