> I am coding in Ocaml a daemon program (the Poesia monitor - see
> http://www.poesia-filter.org/) which happens to launch daemon
> subprocesses, i.e. it fork and execs processes which do not use their
> stdin stdout and stderr. Basically I would need something like a
> Unix.process_none which forks a command without any stdin stdout and
> stderr (which are technically redirected to /dev/null).

This can easily be written in terms of Unix.fork and Unix.exec; you
can use the sources for the Unix.process_* functions as a starting point.

> Also, Unix.open_process_in and related seems to forget closing the
> file descriptors in the child process, as this example (running only
> on Linux) demonstrates:

This is standard Unix behavior: file descriptors are preserved across
"exec", unless they were set to "close on exec" mode before the exec
(see Unix.set_close_on_exec).  

- Xavier Leroy
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