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@@ -91,13 +91,9 @@ T} Thread safety MT-Safe
.hy
.ad
.sp 1
-.SH STANDARDS
-Not in POSIX.1.
+.SH VERSIONS
A similar function appears on the BSDs.
-The
-.BR daemon ()
-function first appeared in 4.4BSD.
-.SH NOTES
+.PP
The glibc implementation can also return \-1 when
.I /dev/null
exists but is not a character device with the expected
@@ -105,6 +101,10 @@ major and minor numbers.
In this case,
.I errno
need not be set.
+.SH STANDARDS
+None.
+.SH HISTORY
+4.4BSD.
.SH BUGS
The GNU C library implementation of this function was taken from BSD,
and does not employ the double-fork technique (i.e.,