What's the difference between calling daemon() and calling fork(), setsid(), fork(), etc.?

Question

I\'ve been looking at creating Unix dæmons, and there seem to be two methods. The long-winded one, which seems to come up when searching is to call fork(),

Answer 1

The daemon call summarizes the long-winded fork procedure, and I don't recall any implementation that does anything more.

Since daemon() is a high-level concept, it's definitely to be preferred for novice and experienced programmers.