> But a more elegant and economical solution is to have the daemonize()
> routine automatically re-parent its caller to be a child of init
> (assuming the caller's parent isn't init already). At the same time,
> the caller's exit_signal should be set to SIGCHLD. This would
> definitely solve the problem, and it is unlikely to introduce any
> incompatibilities with existing code.
We have a seperate reparent_to_init() function in 2.4 to do this. That was
kept seperately mostly to avoid introducing mysterious changes of behaviour
in daemonize() calls during 2.4
For 2.5 I agree, the reparent_to_init belongs in daemonize()
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