From 78e53a21f022e5948e8c393a74f8e37aa4d7251b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: indexzero <charlie.robbins@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 03:56:15 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] [minor] Small updates to 0.2.0

---
 README.md     |  6 +++---
 lib/daemon.js | 10 +++++++++-
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d163c6c..174e11a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Starting a daemon is easy, just call daemon.start() and daemon.lock().
   // Your awesome code here
   
   fs.open('somefile.log', 'w+', function (err, fd) {
-    daemon.daemonize();
+    daemon.daemonize(fd);
     daemon.lock('/tmp/yourprogram.pid');
   });
 </pre>
@@ -43,11 +43,11 @@ This library also exposes a higher level facility through javascript for startin
   
   // Your awesome code here
   
-  daemon.daemonize('somefile.log', '/tmp/yourprogram.pid', function (err, started) {
+  daemon.daemonize('somefile.log', '/tmp/yourprogram.pid', function (err, pid) {
     // We are now in the daemon process
     if (err) return sys.puts('Error starting daemon: ' + err);
     
-    sys.puts('Daemon started successfully');
+    sys.puts('Daemon started successfully with pid: ' + pid);
   });
 </pre>
 
diff --git a/lib/daemon.js b/lib/daemon.js
index 5f0ebc6..f7a8820 100644
--- a/lib/daemon.js
+++ b/lib/daemon.js
@@ -16,11 +16,19 @@ var fs = require('fs'),
 Object.keys(binding).forEach(function (k) { daemon[k] = binding[k] });
 
 // 
-// function run (out, lock, callback)
+// function daemonize ([out, lock, callback])
 //   Run is designed to encapsulate the basic daemon operation in a single async call.
 //   When the callback returns you are in the the child process.
 //
 daemon.daemonize = function (out, lock, callback) {
+  //
+  // If we only get one argument assume it's an fd and 
+  // simply return with the pid from binding.daemonize(fd);
+  //
+  if (arguments.length === 1) {
+    return binding.daemonize(out);
+  }
+  
   fs.open(out, 'w+', function (err, fd) {
     if (err) return callback(err);