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