On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 06:58, Luke Mewburn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've been using autotest for a couple of years, for unit tests > and overall system systems of large daemons, that daemonize > themselves using the daemon(3) function (originally from 4.4BSD, > also in glibc). > > Until now I've been using a workaround for starting the daemon > because "something" was preventing AT_CHECK from determining that > the daemon startup had occurred correctly, so it was hanging in > the check. Our workaround was a wrapper program which closes all > file descriptors before starting the daemon.
Excuse me, but why you didn't close all FDs inside your daemon before daemonizing at all? Properly written daemon shoud to do it anyway for preventing opened FDs to be "leaked" forever (ok, not forever but until the daemon will be shuted down). -- Andrew W. Nosenko <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
