On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 10:47:45AM +0800, Darren Reed wrote: > I've been tossing around the idea of introducing a function that > provides something close to being equivalent to daemon(3)[1] in > BSD to simplify the work needed to make a program run as a daemon.
See: 4471189 should have 4.4BSD's daemon() utility function. > The presence of contracts in OpenSolaris makes it seem necessary > to add a 3rd argument to this, indicating whether or not you want > the daemon to have its own contract. Is there a requirement for > more options than just this, or just more flexibility in this? I think you'll definitly want more flexibility, and not just for contracts (in general, I agree with the comments made by Casper and Liane). Note that contracts encapsulate most of their flexibility in that you define a contract's terms using an opaque parameter block (the "template"). There's no need to re-express this flexibility in a daemonizing interface. Dave
