On Sunday, November 21, 2010 14:43:56 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday, November 21, 2010 06:50:45 Simon Josefsson wrote: > > The 'daemon' function is not documented in the glibc manual, and it is > > not standardized by POSIX. Should we use it? Perhaps we should treat > > it the same way as 'ruserpass'. > > it's in all BSD variants and all Linux variants. that's good enough in my > book. if you really want, i can add a daemon function check in configure > and base the result on that.
err, nm, i remembered this is how i wrote the patch already. even though the func isnt in POSIX, BSD has long standardized its usage, so relying on it is fine in my book. plus, it fixes nommu support which supports daemon() but not fork(). -mike
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