Mostly that it's a function of the context, not the program, whether it is to be treated as a daemon or not. But there's also a bunch of stuff to do with whether the process is/should be a session leader or not, which is again something the program itself shouldn't be making decisions about. djb writes a bit about this topic here: https://cr.yp.to/daemontools/faq/create.html#fghack . The systemd people even seem to agree (calling a non-backgrounding daemon a "new-style daemon"), at least as far as non-backgrounding goes: http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/daemon.html#New-Style%20Daemons
On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 at 15:19, Brian Adkins <lojicdot...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just out of curiosity, why do you feel using daemon(3) is not a great > idea? I'm not disagreeing, just curious about your reasons. > > On Thursday, November 29, 2018 at 5:54:42 AM UTC-5, Tony Garnock-Jones > wrote: >> >> IMO using daemon(3) is not a great idea. Instead, I like to use djb's >> daemontools https://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html to supervise my processes. >> For example, see the `README` and the `run` script in >> https://github.com/tonyg/racket-reloadable-example. >> >> Tony >> >>> >>> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/racket-users/_4QYrxcWrQw/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Tony Garnock-Jones to...@leastfixedpoint.com http://leastfixedpoint.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
