On Sunday 20 April 2008, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> Regarding the daemon() commit: It looks for me that daemon is Linux
> specific (as in: non-posix) [0]. As my aim for gpm2 is to run on all
> posix plattform
sorry, you're right of course. i forgot that gpm was targetting POSIX and not
Linux.
> So my proposal is to revoke that commit and add close of STDIN_FILENO,
> ... and connect those three fds to /dev/null as described in daemon(3).
hrm, i think using daemon() when possible would still be better. perhaps a
configure test to see if the function is available ?
otherwise, the code to use would be what glibc does ... open /dev/null and use
dup() to connect STD{IN,OUT,ERR}_FILENO to that fd ...
-mike
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
_______________________________________________ gpm mailing list gpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linux.it/listinfo/gpm