netbsd's daemon(3) fixes.

From: Alfred Perlstein (bright@mu.org)
Date: 01/11/02 

Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 11:21:44 -0800
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To: security@freebsd.org

I saw some recent fixes in netbsd wrt when daemon is called in
various daemons, anyone have time to see if this is applicable
to us? And whether or not to merge the fixes in? 

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