On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 10:31:41AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > If you have a program that does fork, but you don't want it to, there's > nothing you can do to stop it.
There's DJB's fghack program, but as the name implies, it's a hack, and not guaranteed to work. https://cr.yp.to/daemontools/fghack.html Fortunately, upstream maintainers of daemons and other services have come to understand that self-backgrounding is no longer considered appropriate mandatory behavior for a daemon. All the recent releases of major daemons have options to STOP self-backgrounding, or they no longer do it by default, and offer an option to do it if desired.
