Re: daemons terminating

I have upgraded my embedded box with everything freshly built, including 
a much newer kernel (2.4.18).
Now I can't reproduce the problem, so it seems like I've been wasting 
your time.
Sorry about that!

/Bjorn

Erik Andersen wrote:

> On Tue Oct 29, 2002 at 08:37:35PM +0100, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
>  
>
> > I'm having problems with the daemon-function on a 48 Mhz motorola 860.
> > It seems like parent process terminates before the child process has had 
> > time
> > to become session leader. Am I the only one with this problem?
> > If a apply following patch everything works,
> >    
>
> That sounds pretty wierd.  There should be no such race.
>    <sound of Erik thinking>
>
> Can you try this patch and let me know if it helps?
>
> --- libc/unistd/daemon.c        11 Jan 2002 13:30:41 -0000      1.6
> +++ libc/unistd/daemon.c        30 Oct 2002 08:27:53 -0000
> @@ -48,6 +48,11 @@
>         if (setsid() == -1)
>                 return(-1);
>
> +       /* Make certain we are not a session leader, or else we
> +        * might reacquire a controlling terminal */
> +       if (fork())
> +               _exit(0);
> +
>         if (!nochdir)
>                 chdir("/");
>
> -Erik
>
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