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From: Kaila <kaila@o-o.org>
To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
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Subject: Re: library routine used to read a configuration file
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On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Zhihui Zhang wrote:

> 
> I need to write a daemon that reads a configuration file when it starts.
> Is there any library routines that can help me on this?  Thanks a lot.
> 
> -Zhihui
> 

I personally have found the getcap(3) functions to be remarkably useful
for this.


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