to or a logfile, and closing all the other file descriptors inherited from the parent process.

If the process is started by a super-server daemon, such as , , or , the super-server daemon will perform those functions for the process, except for old-style daemons not converted to run under and specified as and "multi-threaded" datagram servers under .

MS-DOS

In MS-DOS, daemon-like functionality was implemented

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