fork 0.1.3

Library for creating a new process using the fork and setsid syscalls
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# fork

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Library for creating a new process detached from the controling terminal
(daemon) using the [fork](https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?fork) and
[setsid](https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?setsid) syscalls.

## Why?

- [daemon(3)](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/daemon.3.html) has been
deprecated in MacOSX 10.5, by using `fork` and `setsid` new methods could be
created to achieve the same goal, inspired by ["nix - Rust friendly bindings to
*nix APIs crate"](https://crates.io/crates/nix).
- Minimal library to daemonize, fork, double-fork a process
- Learn Rust :crab:

Example:

```rs
use fork::{daemon, Fork};
use std::process::{id, Command};

fn main() {
    if let Ok(Fork::Child) = daemon() {
        println!("my pid {}", id());
        Command::new("sleep")
            .arg("300")
            .output()
            .expect("failed to execute process");
    }
}
```

```pre
$ ps -axo ppid,pid,pgid,sess,tty,tpgid,stat,uid,%mem,%cpu,command, | egrep "fork|sleep|PID"
 PPID   PID  PGID   SESS TTY      TPGID STAT   UID       %MEM  %CPU COMMAND
    1 48738 48737      0 ??           0 S      501        0.0   0.0 target/debug/fork
48738 48753 48737      0 ??           0 S      501        0.0   0.0 sleep 300
```