Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Fix bug #709 by daemonizing blktapctrl and closing stdin, stdout and stderr

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1 Aug 2006, at 11:27, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:

> > > Does it make sense for this to be folded into a common utility
> > > library?
> > Anil Madhavapeddy pointed out it already is: man 3 daemon.
> Cool! I wasn't aware of it. How portable is it? how portable should
> the tools be in general?
Ah, that might be a concern, for the Solaris port in particular. 
daemon() is I think a BSD function ported to Linux. It's not POSIX. 
Keeping the existing code is uglier but probably more portable.
 -- Keir


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