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From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, christiand59@web.de
Subject: Re: /dev/stderr gets unlinked 8]
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:34:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603151534.41899.vda@ilport.com.ua> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jehd5zq28o.fsf@sykes.suse.de>

On Wednesday 15 March 2006 15:14, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de> writes:
> 
> > any good daemon closes stdout, stderr, stdin
> 
> A real good daemon would redirect them to /dev/null.

Yeah, yeah, let's first close stderr, and then proceed and 
add some code to handle command line --log=file, and to do
logging to that file.

Why good ol' fprintf(stderr,...) isn't enough? Why do you
want to complicate things?

What's so hard in doing "daemon 2>/dev/null &" if you don't
want to save log?
--
vda

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-15 13:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-14 10:12 /dev/stderr gets unlinked 8] Denis Vlasenko
2006-03-14 13:07 ` Aurelien Degremont
2006-03-14 13:11   ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-03-14 13:11 ` Christian
2006-03-14 13:35   ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-03-15 11:02     ` Stefan Seyfried
2006-03-15 13:14       ` Andreas Schwab
2006-03-15 13:34         ` Denis Vlasenko [this message]
2006-03-15 14:23           ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-03-16  8:07             ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-03-16 20:11         ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-17  6:34           ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-03-17 14:32             ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-17 15:40               ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-03-15 13:30       ` Denis Vlasenko
     [not found] <5QeND-31x-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <5QE55-6Td-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <5R778-8fs-29@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <5RgN2-5fi-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]       ` <5RohF-7Oe-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]         ` <5Rpnz-ZJ-39@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-03-19  1:07           ` Bodo Eggert
2006-03-19 16:57             ` Joshua Hudson

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