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From: Michal Schmidt <xschmi00@stud.feec.vutbr.cz>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@hogyros.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: implement daemon() in the kernel
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:30:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4562C741.800@stud.feec.vutbr.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45624A91.3010604@zytor.com>

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Simon Richter wrote:
>> int daemon(int nochdir, int noclose)
>> {
>>     if(!nochdir)
>>         chdir("/");
>>
>>     if(!noclose)
>>     {
>>         int fd = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR);
>>         dup2(fd, 0);
>>         dup2(fd, 1);
>>         dup2(fd, 2);
>>         close(fd);
>>     }
>>
>>     if(fork() > 0)
> 
> ... that should be if (fork() == 0) ...

Are you sure? fork()==0 means we're the child, but it's the parent who 
should exit, isn't it?

> 
>>         _exit(0);
> 
>     setsid();
>> }
>>

Michal

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-21  9:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-20 13:20 RFC: implement daemon() in the kernel Simon Richter
2006-11-20 15:38 ` Mark Rustad
2006-11-20 17:42   ` Simon Richter
2006-11-20 20:48     ` Mark Rustad
2006-11-20 20:38 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-11-21  0:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-11-21  9:30   ` Michal Schmidt [this message]
2006-11-21 17:15     ` H. Peter Anvin

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