[gpm] features request

[Nico Schottelius]

A do-not-background flag sounds reasonable to me - do you mind creating
a pull request on github for it?

Best,

Nico

Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@gmail.com> writes:

> I run gpm as a supervised service, just like sshd or gettys. I wonder
> whether the developer would be willing to add a few features that
> would make gpm supervision-friendly:
>
> 1) Add a flag to allow logging error messages to file descriptor 2
>
> 2) Add a "do not background" flag
>
> Note: 1) and 2) might be the same flag. I know -D does that currently,
> but it also sends debugging stuff to fd 2, which makes real errors
> impossible to detect.
>
> 3) Add a "ignore pid stuff" flag (i.e., don't write a pid file, ignore
> it if it exists). The file /var/run/gpm.pid is useless for a
> supervised service. It is essentially harmless, but if the gpm process
> receives a HUP it will start using an extra file descriptor:
> lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Sep 15 19:11 0 -> '/run/gpm.pid (deleted)'
>
> (the value 0 for the fd is just because I had stdin closed)
>
> The essential point of all this is the "no unwanted debug data" issue.
>
> TIA
>
> Jorge Almeida
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