Ummm, no se si estas buscando esto exactamente, pero tal vez te pueda servir (el enlace me fue recomendado por la gente del canal c++ de freenode, así que a ellos van los créditos).
Cita: NAME
daemon - run in the background
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
int daemon(int nochdir, int noclose);
DESCRIPTION
The daemon() function is for programs wishing to detach themselves from the controlling terminal and run in the background as system daemons.
Unless the argument nochdir is non-zero, daemon() changes the current working directory to the root ("/").
Unless the argument noclose is non-zero, daemon() will redirect standard input, standard output and standard error to /dev/null.
RETURN VALUE
(This function forks, and if the fork() succeeds, the parent does _exit(0), so that further errors are seen by the child only.) On success zero will be returned. If an error occurs, daemon() returns -1 and sets the global variable errno to any of the errors specified for the library functions fork(2) and setsid(2).
SEE ALSO
fork(2), setsid(2)
NOTES
The glibc implementation can also return -1 when /dev/null exists but is not a character device with the expected major and minor numbers. In this case errno need not be set.
CONFORMING TO
Not in POSIX.1-2001. A similar function appears on the BSDs. The daemon() function first appeared in 4.4BSD.
Aún no puedo poner enlaces a sitios externos :| ...