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WEBrick::Daemon

A generic module for daemonizing a process

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Performs the standard operations for daemonizing a process. Runs a block, if given.

 
               # File webrick/server.rb, line 35
def Daemon.start
  exit!(0) if fork
  Process::setsid
  exit!(0) if fork
  Dir::chdir("/")
  File::umask(0)
  STDIN.reopen("/dev/null")
  STDOUT.reopen("/dev/null", "w")
  STDERR.reopen("/dev/null", "w")
  yield if block_given?
end