Re: POE and daemonization

[Andrew A. Chen]

At 02:57 AM 5/1/2002 -0400, Peter Chen wrote:
>What is the convention for handling daemonization in a POE application?

I am unsure how kosher this solution is, but it's "functional" as far as I 
know.  I jacked the daemonize() routine out of perlfaq and called it just 
before $poe_kernel->run();  See below.

-a

daemonize();
$poe_kernel->run();
exit 0;

sub daemonize {
     chdir '/'    or die "Can't chdir to /: $!";
     open STDIN, '/dev/null' or die "Can't read /dev/null: $!";
     open STDOUT, '>/dev/null'
       or die "Can't write to /dev/null: $!";
     defined(my $pid = fork) or die "Can't fork: $!";
     exit if $pid;
     setsid       or die "Can't start a new session: $!";
     open STDERR, '>&STDOUT' or die "Can't dup stdout: $!";
}