I’m trying to create a daemon in python. I’ve found the following question, which has some good resources in it which I am currently following, but I’m curious as to why a double fork is necessary. I’ve scratched around google and found plenty of resources declaring that one is necessary, but not why.
Some mention that it is to prevent the daemon from acquiring a controlling terminal. How would it do this without the second fork? What are the repercussions?
