On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 02:50:34PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hmm - not entirely trivial; it turns out that most unix-es do not take
> > kindly to
> >
> > setsid()
> >
> > when not detached/non-root. So I changed Jos/Michaels patch. See below.
> > Anyone any comments ?
>
> The other obvious way is to make the error non fatal or do a (!geteuid())
> to see if we are running as root.
But wait, if we skip the setsid() if !do_detach we will end up killing the
parent pgrp which contains - in this case - svscan/supervise/others, which is
part of the point of this patch. Am I missing something?
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