- * Otherwise, it calls pause() to sleep until it receives \p SIGTERM or \p
- * SIGCHLD and exits successfully thereafter. This behaviour is useful if the
- * daemon process should not detach from the console until the child process
- * has completed its setup.
+ * Otherwise, a pipe is created prior to the fork() and the parent tries to
+ * read a single byte from the reading end of the pipe. The child is supposed
+ * to write to the writing end of the pipe after it completed its setup
+ * procedure successfully. This behaviour is useful to let the parent process
+ * die with an error if the child process aborts early, since in this case the
+ * read() will return non-positive.
+ *
+ * \return This function either succeeds or calls exit(3). If parent_waits is
+ * true, the return value is the file descriptor of the writing end of the
+ * pipe. Otherwise the function returns zero.