only fork one to assist in stop-start-daemon assumptions about daemon behavior http://bugs.gentoo.org/190785 diff -durN glibc-2.10.1.orig/nscd/nscd.c glibc-2.10.1/nscd/nscd.c --- glibc-2.10.1.orig/nscd/nscd.c 2009-02-06 21:10:27.000000000 +0100 +++ glibc-2.10.1/nscd/nscd.c 2009-11-13 00:50:24.000000000 +0100 @@ -182,6 +182,9 @@ if (pid != 0) exit (0); + if (write_pid (_PATH_NSCDPID) < 0) + dbg_log ("%s: %s", _PATH_NSCDPID, strerror (errno)); + int nullfd = open (_PATH_DEVNULL, O_RDWR); if (nullfd != -1) { @@ -231,12 +234,6 @@ for (i = min_close_fd; i < getdtablesize (); i++) close (i); - pid = fork (); - if (pid == -1) - error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, _("cannot fork")); - if (pid != 0) - exit (0); - setsid (); if (chdir ("/") != 0) @@ -245,9 +242,6 @@ openlog ("nscd", LOG_CONS | LOG_ODELAY, LOG_DAEMON); - if (write_pid (_PATH_NSCDPID) < 0) - dbg_log ("%s: %s", _PATH_NSCDPID, strerror (errno)); - if (!init_logfile ()) dbg_log (_("Could not create log file"));