Proposal for a new syscall

pitchfork() - daemon fork



Much like fork(), except that the new child automatically also setsid()'s and:

- Has a umask of 0 and working directory "/"

- SIGHUP set to ignore

- Gets new stdin, stdout, stderr handles, all tied to /dev/null



[ Apologizes to non-unix-geek readers. Maybe you'll like my next post. ]