Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:15:23 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: RFC: implement daemon() in the kernel |
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Michal Schmidt wrote: > 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? >
Oh, right, of course. Thinko; the lack of error handling confused me. I did that right in the assembly code.
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