catch exit status of daemon

Hello All, I have one dumb question, I wanted to write a process which monitors the exit status of the daemon, The Main process would fork a service, which would internally fork a child and , exit from the process. If main process wants to query the status of the daemon, how it can be achived. For ex : Process A would call a syslog service, which would internally fork a child, daemon it and exit, so if process A wants to wait for the syslog process, is it possible. Thanks in advance Regards, Yash.