When using start-stop-daemon with --background option, it doesn't detach the executed process from stdin, which makes the tty from which initscript was run open forever even after the terminal was closed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: start-stop-daemon --start --background --make-pidfile --pidfile tmppid --exec /bin/sleep -- 5 && sleep 1 && for i in /proc/$(cat tmppid)/fd/*; do echo $i $(readlink $i); done Actual Results: /proc/31876/fd/0 /dev/pts/15 /proc/31876/fd/1 /dev/null /proc/31876/fd/2 /dev/null Expected Results: /proc/31876/fd/0 /dev/null /proc/31876/fd/1 /dev/null /proc/31876/fd/2 /dev/null Portage 2.2.7 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.17, 3.10.17-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.10.17-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9400_@_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 4046704 total, 535664 free KiB Swap: 4000180 total, 3650792 free Timestamp of tree: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 09:00:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.2 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] ccache version 3.1.9 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.7.5-r3, 3.3.3 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There is a comment in the source that says we do not redirect stdin because "some daemons may need it". That implies that I might break some daemon out there if I do this. Any thoughts on how to proceed with this bug would be helpful, since I don't know which or how many daemons "might need this". Also, should I consider that a bug in the daemons?
There have been no examples of daemons that will break if this was done, so I have fixed this bug in commit 03803ae. This will be included in OpenRC-0.14.
