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diff --git a/lib/daemon.man b/lib/daemon.man
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--- a/lib/daemon.man
+++ b/lib/daemon.man
@@ -1,21 +1,52 @@
+The following options are valid on POSIX based platforms.
 .TP
-\fB-P\fR[\fIpidfile\fR], \fB--pidfile\fR[\fB=\fIpidfile\fR]
+\fB\-\-pidfile\fR[\fB=\fIpidfile\fR]
 Causes a file (by default, \fB\*(PN.pid\fR) to be created indicating
-the PID of the running process.  If \fIpidfile\fR is not specified, or
+the PID of the running process.  If the \fIpidfile\fR argument is not
+specified, or
 if it does not begin with \fB/\fR, then it is created in
 \fB@RUNDIR@\fR.
-
+.IP
+If \fB\-\-pidfile\fR is not specified, no pidfile is created.
+.
 .TP
-\fB-f\fR, \fB--force\fR
-By default, when \fB-P\fR or \fB--pidfile\fR is specified and the
-specified pidfile already exists and is locked by a running process,
-\fB\*(PN\fR refuses to start.  Specify \fB-f\fR or \fB--force\fR
-to cause it to instead overwrite the pidfile.
-
-When \fB-P\fR or \fB--pidfile\fR is not specified, this option has no
-effect.
-
+\fB\-\-overwrite\-pidfile\fR
+By default, when \fB\-\-pidfile\fR is specified and the specified pidfile 
+already exists and is locked by a running process, \fB\*(PN\fR refuses 
+to start.  Specify \fB\-\-overwrite\-pidfile\fR to cause it to instead 
+overwrite the pidfile.
+.IP
+When \fB\-\-pidfile\fR is not specified, this option has no effect.
+.
 .TP
-\fB-D\fR, \fB--detach\fR
+\fB\-\-detach\fR
 Causes \fB\*(PN\fR to detach itself from the foreground session and
-run as a background process.
+run as a background process. \*(DD
+.
+.TP
+\fB\-\-monitor\fR
+Creates an additional process to monitor the \fB\*(PN\fR daemon.  If
+the daemon dies due to a signal that indicates a programming error
+(\fBSIGABRT\fR, \fBSIGALRM\fR, \fBSIGBUS\fR, \fBSIGFPE\fR,
+\fBSIGILL\fR, \fBSIGPIPE\fR, \fBSIGSEGV\fR, \fBSIGXCPU\fR, or
+\fBSIGXFSZ\fR) then the monitor process starts a new copy of it.  If
+the daemon dies or exits for another reason, the monitor process exits.
+.IP
+This option is normally used with \fB\-\-detach\fR, but it also
+functions without it.
+.
+.TP
+\fB\-\-no\-chdir\fR
+By default, when \fB\-\-detach\fR is specified, \fB\*(PN\fR 
+changes its current working directory to the root directory after it 
+detaches.  Otherwise, invoking \fB\*(PN\fR from a carelessly chosen 
+directory would prevent the administrator from unmounting the file 
+system that holds that directory.
+.IP
+Specifying \fB\-\-no\-chdir\fR suppresses this behavior, preventing
+\fB\*(PN\fR from changing its current working directory.  This may be 
+useful for collecting core files, since it is common behavior to write 
+core dumps into the current working directory and the root directory 
+is not a good directory to use.
+.IP
+This option has no effect when \fB\-\-detach\fR is not specified.