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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Fix bug #709 by daemonizing blktapctrl and closi

OK.  I'll pull and redo both using daemon() if that's OK.

On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 11:13 +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 1 Aug 2006, at 11:06, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> 
> >>>  Also, fileno(stdin) is nicer.
> >>
> >> Why? I don't think so.
> >
> > fclose(stdin); /* and the rest */
> > fd = open(...); /* fd is 0 */
> > close(STDIN_FILENO);  /* does the wrong thing */
> > close(fileno(stdin)); /* does the right thing */
> 
> Yes, that's the better way even though we won't have done tricks such 
> as the above when daemonise runs. Also a new patch needs to be based at 
> least on xen-unstable 10876 which is the original patch from Harry -- 
> it isn't in the public tree yet for some reason: I'll check up on that. 
> And any changes may also need to be applied to the xenstored original 
> (no sense in updating one and not the other).
> 
>   Cheers,
>   Keir
> 
> 


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