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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-06-17 10:51:52 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-06-17 10:51:52 +0000
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Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/daemon.3 b/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/daemon.3
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--- a/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/daemon.3
+++ b/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/daemon.3
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)daemon.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
.\" Added mentioning of glibc weirdness wrt unistd.h. 5/11/98, Al Viro
-.TH daemon 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH daemon 3 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages 6.8"
.SH NAME
daemon \- run in the background
.SH LIBRARY
@@ -15,15 +15,15 @@ Standard C library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <unistd.h>
-.PP
+.P
.BI "int daemon(int " nochdir ", int " noclose );
.fi
-.PP
+.P
.RS -4
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
.RE
-.PP
+.P
.BR daemon ():
.nf
Since glibc 2.21:
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ The
.BR daemon ()
function is for programs wishing to detach themselves from the
controlling terminal and run in the background as system daemons.
-.PP
+.P
If
.I nochdir
is zero,
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ is zero,
changes the process's current working directory
to the root directory ("/");
otherwise, the current working directory is left unchanged.
-.PP
+.P
If
.I noclose
is zero,
@@ -88,10 +88,9 @@ T{
.BR daemon ()
T} Thread safety MT-Safe
.TE
-.sp 1
.SH VERSIONS
A similar function appears on the BSDs.
-.PP
+.P
The glibc implementation can also return \-1 when
.I /dev/null
exists but is not a character device with the expected