[gpm] Question about commit e8ea3d3...

Nico Schottelius nico-gpm@schottelius.org
Sun Apr 20 22:42:06 CEST 2008


Hello again!

Added become_daemon() from gpm2 to gpm1.

This is a bit ugly, as it implies some relative symlinks, but it works
for the translation to gpm2.

Commit-id: 9751c87...

Good night

Nico

Nico Schottelius [Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 10:25:32AM +0200]:
> Hello Mike!
> 
> Regarding the daemon() commit: It looks for me that daemon is Linux
> specific (as in: non-posix) [0]. As my aim for gpm2 is to run on all
> posix plattform
> 
> So my proposal is to revoke that commit and add close of STDIN_FILENO,
> ... and connect those three fds to /dev/null as described in daemon(3).
> 
> What do you think about that, Mike?
> 
> Sincerly
> 
> Nico
> 
> [0]: http://www.opengroup.org/cgi-bin/kman2?sourceid=Mozilla-search&value=daemon
> 
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