This prevents the intermediate thread from exiting properly, as
fork creates a child process with only one thread, so any existing
data_logger thread will not be in the child. Since this thread
sets a flag the data_logger dtor blocks on, all children threads
will hang on exit.
many RPC functions added by the daemonize changes
(and related changes on the upstream dev branch that were not merged)
were commented out (apart from return). Other than that, this *should*
work...at any rate, it builds, and that's something.
Erik de Castro Lopo