Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 13:45:15 -0800 From: "Jonathan Graehl" <jonathan@graehl.org> To: "freebsd-Arch" <freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Request for review [Re: /bin/ls patch round #2] Message-ID: <NCBBLOALCKKINBNNEDDLEEOPDMAA.jonathan@graehl.org> In-Reply-To: <200103212119.QAA22140@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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> You would have to exclude most of the programs in 4.4BSD by that
> definition. There is a reason why interfaces like err(3) and
> daemon(3) are included in the standard C library, and the style guide
> strongly recommends their usage.
>
> -GAWollman
While I was aware of err, daemon is quite a pleasant surprise. A month ago, I
looked at several FreeBSD servers (inetd, syslogd, and others) and was dismayed
to find that they all had their own little variation on the same
fork/setsid/chdir/dup2"/dev/null" theme. Are there any plans to change the
FreeBSD servers to use err and daemon rather than their homegrown equivalents?
(I'm already changing mine, since I did almost exactly the same thing, except
that I have a compile time option to have the child sleep and the parent print
its pid to make debugging with gdb in daemon mode possible).
Is using setlogin("") recommended for root daemons? I assume daemon doesn't do
it ...
--
Jonathan Graehl
http://jonathan.graehl.org/
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