From 89ac4ecce1150904fcd730c3f3d218dc777f9a99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ruslan Ermilov Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:21:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] mdoc(7) police: tidy up OpenBSD fixes. --- lib/libc/gen/daemon.3 | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/daemon.3 b/lib/libc/gen/daemon.3 index 76932f380082..a08d0df0a1a1 100644 --- a/lib/libc/gen/daemon.3 +++ b/lib/libc/gen/daemon.3 @@ -64,13 +64,11 @@ is non-zero, will redirect standard input, standard output, and standard error to .Pa /dev/null . .Sh RETURN VALUES -Upon success, -.Fn daemon -returns 0; otherwise \-1 is returned. +.Rv -std daemon .Sh ERRORS -The function +The .Fn daemon -may fail and set +function may fail and set .Va errno for any of the errors specified for the library functions .Xr fork 2 @@ -86,14 +84,14 @@ function first appeared in .Bx 4.4 . .Sh CAVEATS Unless the -.Ar noclose +.Fa noclose argument is non-zero, .Fn daemon will close the first three file descriptors and redirect them to .Pa /dev/null . Normally, these correspond to standard input, standard output, and standard error. -However, if any of those file descriptors refer to something else they +However, if any of those file descriptors refer to something else, they will still be closed, resulting in incorrect behavior of the calling program. This can happen if any of standard input, standard output, or standard error have been closed before the program was run.