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Daemonic solution... sort of...

I found a rather ugly solution to the daemon() call problem I mentioned earlier.

Instead of daemon(), I call fork(), create a copy of the command line arguments, add an argument telling it not to fork again (otherwise we end up recursively creating thousands and thousands of processes... ask me how I know...) and call execve() to start a fresh new process. It's ugly, it's hideous, but it at least lets me get back to work... In theory, I could also call daemon() instead of fork(), but it seems that would create more overhead than it's worth.

-DrD-
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