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Chris Brannon, on Wed 20 Jul 2016 17:07:26 -0700, wrote:
> > currently espeakup uses daemon() to do the daemonizing stuff.
> > Unfortunately, daemon() does things not very appropriately, and there
> > is notably a delay between the parent exit()ing and the child writing
> > the pid file.
> 
> Why not just use the -d option when starting espeakup?

Because at some point we need to fix bugs, not walk away from them.

Samuel