Re: /dev/stderr gets unlinked 8]

Denis Vlasenko
2006-03-15T13:36:32Z

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?
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