From f837124ab1c018791994ce44d3389aac047355f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bert Gijsbers <gijsbers@science.uva.nl>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2023 19:04:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] After daemonizing reopen the output file.

---
 src/icewmbg.cc | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/icewmbg.cc b/src/icewmbg.cc
index adbf2603b..8cdb48098 100644
--- a/src/icewmbg.cc
+++ b/src/icewmbg.cc
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <signal.h>
-#include <time.h>
-#include <sys/stat.h>
 #include <sys/resource.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <X11/Xatom.h>
@@ -1292,8 +1290,12 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
     if (trans.nonempty())
         trans.clear();
 
-    if (daemonize)
-        daemon(1, 0);
+    if (daemonize) {
+        if (daemon(1, 0) == -1)
+            fail("daemon");
+        if (nonempty(outputArg))
+            upath::redirectOutput(outputArg);
+    }
 
     return bg.mainLoop();
 }