Fixes an issue where client applications such as ssh might attempt to
close all open fds, therefore also closing the fds used by the internal
components of the library such as Mercury.

We don't want the log file to be created before command line parsing,
otherwise --version or --help cli option could not work beacause we
don't have permission to write to log file.

lseek was triggering a number overflow by converting long to integer on
its return value

Added specific lseek test