On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 03:34:34AM +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Niccolo Rigacci <[email protected]> writes: > > I released a little software to proxy GPS data read from gpsd to > > a remote server. I use it to store my live track on a Postgres > > database (running on my home server) via GPRS connection. > > Interesting idea. I looked around the code: > > /* Fork into background */ > if (be_daemon) { > pid = fork(); > if (pid == -1) { > perror("Could not fork() into background"); > } else if (pid > 0) { > exit(0); > } > } > > shouldn't this use two fork()'s? See Stevens's "Advanced Programming > in the Unix Environment" book or take a look at how e.g. tor makes > itself a daemon:
man 3 daemon should do it better :) Regards, _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
