Daemon doesn't have current directory (workdir) in general sense because it uses several global directories to ensure its work. By Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) pid-files should be placed in /var/run directory, log-files in /var/log, configuration in /etc. Additionally, there can be OS-specific differences and various functional-specific cases, e.g: you need an one log file or you need a directory to log file rotation and etc. So that using of workdir for a daemon doesn't have the sense in most cases.

go-daemon doesn't aim to be framework and i don't know how to implement flexible functional for all cases, so that i leave it out for client code.

@sevlyar I agree they should default to that sensible output location, but currently it just dumps them where the command is being run from, which is less than ideal. I would take your solution over a workdir, but the current behavior doesn't do either.