On 2009 Jan 22, at 1:36, Belka wrote:
Could somebody please share some experience on how to implement
daemon start
and stop directives. In theory I need something like this:
1. "my_daemon start" - starts my app with an infinite loop of serving
inside.
2. "my_daemon stop" - puts in some TVar a value signalizing, that
stop is
given - infinite loop brakes.
3. ...it on Linux platform.
Thanks in advance!
If you want a normal daemon, you want to look at System.Posix.Process
to create a proper daemon (forkProcess, createSession; don't forget to
close stdOutput (and, errr, Haskell library types: stdin and stderr
are where? not System.Posix.IO with stdOutput) and reopen them on /
dev/null, at least if they're ttys as determined by
System.Posix.Terminal.queryTerminal). You also want to write out a
pidfile (/var/run/programname.pid) for use by startproc / killproc,
and you want to install a handler for sigTERM
(System.Posix.Signals.installHandler) which sets the exit flag (TVar,
MVar, IORef, Chan, take your pick). Ideally you also catch sigHUP and
reload your state.
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