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Re: open fails in daemon

On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 5:50 PM, Garth Cummings wrote:
Actually, why call daemon() at all? If you're launched from a startup item, you're already running as a background process and, if you don't call anything requiring a window server connection, you'll keep running until shutdown.

It is somewhat common to have your daemon validate parameters, etc... and get initialized so it can be "found" while the launching startup script waits. Then, when it is ready, the daemon calls daemon() to release the parent (letting the startup script continue) knowing that all dependencies on the daemon can now be met (starting everything with & out of the startup scripts plays havoc on explicit dependency management).

But it's this very act of "initializing some things before the daemon() call" that gets you in trouble with upper-level frameworks. It is somewhat of a catch-22. We know it, and want to fix it. But...it's not trivial.

--Jim
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