What is the reason for performing a double fork when creating a daemon?

What is the reason for performing a double fork when creating a daemon?

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Run php script as daemon process

php linux unix daemon

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How do I daemonize an arbitrary script in unix?

perl unix scripting sysadmin daemon

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What's the difference between nohup and a daemon?

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Cross-platform background service in .NET Core (think windows service/unix daemon)?

unix cross-platform .net-core daemon

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Best Method to run a Java Application as a *nix Daemon or Windows Service?

java unix windows-services daemon

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Java running as a Unix service [duplicate]

java unix service daemon

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Interprocess communication with a Daemon

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Why are daemons called daemons?

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Redirecting standard output to syslog

c++ unix redirect daemon syslog

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What's the difference between calling daemon() and calling fork(), setsid(), fork(), etc.?

c unix fork daemon

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MacOS: Manually force a daemon to start

macos unix daemon launchd

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Creating a daemon with stop, start functionality in C

c programming-languages daemon unix

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UNIX Zombies and Daemons

unix daemon zombie-process

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How to use the pidfile library correctly?

c linux unix daemon pid

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