From 5635d4a5bb2b59a4e57fdaad40b3ea50b2ec4d5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Yandell <tom@yandell.me.uk>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:39:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] close the channel to the parent if process has been forked to
 avoid failed assertion

---
 lib/daemon.js | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/daemon.js b/lib/daemon.js
index 983984e..c8c927d 100644
--- a/lib/daemon.js
+++ b/lib/daemon.js
@@ -30,9 +30,13 @@ Object.keys(binding).forEach(function (k) { daemon[k] = binding[k] });
 //
 daemon.start = function (fd) {
   var pid;
+  process.stdout.write('');
+  process.stderr.write('');
+  if (process._channel) {
+    // stops failed assertion when used in forked process
+    process._channel.close();
+  }
   if (typeof(fd) === 'object') {
-    process.stdout.write('');
-    process.stderr.write('');
     pid = binding.start(fd.stdout, fd.stderr);
   }
   else {