From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix bug #709 by daemonizing blktapctrl and
	closing stdin, stdout and stderr
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 13:27:09 +0300
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On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 11:20:59AM +0100, Harry Butterworth wrote:

> > Does it make sense for this to be folded into a common utility
> > library?
> 
> Anil Madhavapeddy pointed out it already is: man 3 daemon.

Cool! I wasn't aware of it. How portable is it? how portable should
the tools be in general?

Cheers,
Muli