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Daemon Example in C
- nesarkvechnep 11mo agoThese days I've been using the `daemon` utility in FreeBSD whenever I need to run some long running program as a daemon. This allows me to not even bother with flags, double forks and so on.
- Joker_vD 11mo ago> We’ll go into the SysV recommendation of “double forking” SysV init can not handle daemons that double-fork. Neither could BSDs up until somewhat recently. Just let your systems "service manager" deal with that on your own, seriously: don't reimplement this functionality; one program to do one thing, etc.
- evanjrowley 11mo agoAfter taking Intro to C many years ago at university, it's lessons like this I wish they had followed up with.
- smw 11mo agoRIP Richard Stevens! I owe most of my early career to APUE
- rurban 11mo agoNowadays I just use systemd. I can still write to stdout, and it repairs itself. No need for syslog. The tricky part are still signals.