Carson Gaspar wrote:
> Alan Robertson wrote:
>> Carson Gaspar wrote:
>>> Xinwei Hu wrote:
>>>
>>>> The known issue is that I don't know how to daemonize in bash,
>>>> so the pingd RA needs a little tweak also.
>>> You can't daemonize in bash, unless your OS comes with some executable
>>> that daemonizes arbitrary programs (I think some flavours of Linux do).
>>
>> Actually, there isn't that much to daemonizing things. A little I/O
>> redirection, a little signal handling and a little process group
>> manipulation (not required for LRM RAs).
>
> It's actually rather complicated to properly daemonize a program (there
> a several persnickety steps to avoid a tty you open becoming your
> controlling tty). Of course hertbeat's requirements may be lesser.
The good thing is that there's no reason I know of for an RA to open a
tty, and we already do the process group manipulation - which I think is
the big thing to do to avoid having a tty become your controlling tty.
--
Alan Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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