From: Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com>
Subject: Re: gotd PID issue
To: Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name>
Cc: gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2023 19:30:22 +0100

On 2023/01/21 12:28:27 +0100, Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name> wrote:
> There is a mismatch between gotd process IDs shown by 'gotctl info' and
> gotd's debug logs, and the actual process IDs shown by pgrep, top, and
> in syslog.
> 
> The reason is that the daemon(3) function forks and we don't take into
> account that this changes the PID.
> 
> This patch makes gotd store its own PID after daemon(3), and avoids
> calling daemon(3) needlessly in child processes such that the PID
> the parent has stored for them will remain correct.

Yes, calling deamon only once in the main process is the right thing
to do here.  ok op@