Crate fork

Library for creating a new process detached from the controlling terminal (daemon).

Example:

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

if let Ok(Fork::Child) = daemon(false, false) {
   Command::new("sleep")
       .arg("3")
       .output()
       .expect("failed to execute process");
}

Enums

• Fork
  Fork result

Functions

• chdir
  Change dir to / see chdir(2)
• close_fd
  Close file descriptors stdin,stdout,stderr
• daemon
  The daemon function is for programs wishing to detach themselves from the controlling terminal and run in the background as system daemons.
• fork
  Create a new child process see fork(2)
• getpgrp
  The process group of the current process see getgrp(2)
• setsid
  Create session and set process group ID see setsid(2)