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Daemonizing Go Programs (with a BSD-style rc.d example)

Posted on by Andrew Gallant: BurntSushi

Go, by its very nature, is multithreaded. This makes a traditional approach of daemonizing Go programs by forking a bit difficult.

To get around this, you could try something as simple as backgrounding your Go program and instructing it to ignore the HUP signal: