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Clarify how the -f option for daemon(8) interacts with other options

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related to redirecting stdout and stderr.
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@ -63,6 +63,11 @@ Change the current working directory to the root
.It Fl f
Redirect standard input, standard output and standard error to
.Pa /dev/null .
When this option is used together with any of the options related to file
or syslog output, the standard file descriptors are first redirected to
.Pa /dev/null ,
then stdout and/or stderr is redirected to a file or to syslog as
specified by the other options.
.It Fl S
Enable syslog output.
This is implicitly applied if other syslog parameters are provided.