Cleanup (or crazy idea): Drop forking

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> 
> systemd has the option to support code that doesn't fork/daemonize.  Taking 
> advantage of that could clean up some of our code.
> 
> That would break the -w option.
> 
> Of course, this doesn't work on systems that don't have systemd.  Is there a 
> commonly used way to do this?

I've seen it done under System V init with a shell wrapper that runs a
daemon in background, nohupping it and directing stderr to a logfile.
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