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For anyone else interested in the code, I believe these are the repos -

Backend https://github.com/SalmaanP/news_backend

Frontend https://github.com/SalmaanP/news_website

you should read https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2014/08/19/fork/ to take care of https://github.com/SalmaanP/news_backend/blob/master/daemon....

Woah! I did not know that about killing PID -1. That is not behaviour I'd expect.

This developer uses Python though, which seems like it does the correct thing in raising an error instead of just returning a -1. I'd have to look through the Python code to be sure through:

https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/os.html#os.fork

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