Hi,
I prepared a patch which adds a -b option which prevents irattach from
forking to the background. I also added corresponding information to
the README and man-irattach-inc.sgml [1].
Regards,
Tino
[1] The changes in the sgml file have no effect since the
irattach.8.gz file won't be rebuilt if I do a dpkg-buildpackage, I
opened another bug for this.
diff -ru irda-utils-0.9.16.orig/irattach/irattach.c
irda-utils-0.9.16/irattach/irattach.c
--- irda-utils-0.9.16.orig/irattach/irattach.c 2003-11-13 15:55:09.000000000
+0100
+++ irda-utils-0.9.16/irattach/irattach.c 2005-10-15 00:15:59.000000000
+0200
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@
static void print_usage(void)
{
int i;
- fprintf(stderr, "Usage: irattach <dev> [-d dongle] [-s] [-v] [-h]\n");
+ fprintf(stderr, "Usage: irattach <dev> [-d dongle] [-s] [-b] [-v]
[-h]\n");
fprintf(stderr, " <dev> is tty name, device name or module
name\n");
fprintf(stderr, "Dongles supported :\n");
for (i = 0; dongle_list[i].dongle != NULL; i++)
@@ -658,6 +658,7 @@
int discovery = -1; /* True if discovery requested */
int c;
int ret;
+ int daemonize = 1; /* Go to background by default */
//printf("%s\n", VERSION);
if ((argc < 2) || (argc > 5)) {
@@ -673,7 +674,7 @@
/* Look for options */
/* Do this before processing device, to handle "-h" and -v"
* properly. Jean II */
- while ((c = getopt(argc, argv, "d:hsv")) != -1) {
+ while ((c = getopt(argc, argv, "d:hsvb")) != -1) {
switch (c) {
case 's':
/* User wants to start discovery */
@@ -694,6 +695,10 @@
case 'h':
print_usage();
exit(0);
+ case 'b':
+ /* Do not fork to background */
+ daemonize = 0;
+ break;
default:
print_usage();
exit(-1);
@@ -725,8 +730,10 @@
}
}
- /* Go as a background daemon */
- fork_now(devfd);
+ if(daemonize) {
+ /* Go as a background daemon */
+ fork_now(devfd);
+ }
/* --- Deamon mode --- */
/* We can no longer print out directly to the terminal, we
diff -ru irda-utils-0.9.16.orig/irattach/README
irda-utils-0.9.16/irattach/README
--- irda-utils-0.9.16.orig/irattach/README 2003-11-13 15:55:09.000000000
+0100
+++ irda-utils-0.9.16/irattach/README 2005-10-15 00:32:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -24,12 +24,13 @@
irattach must be run as root or installed setuid root, as it requires root
privileges
-Usage: irattach <dev> [-d dongle] [-s]
+Usage: irattach <dev> [-d dongle] [-s] [-b]
where
<dev> usually the name of a tty, but can also be a FIR device
-d dongle attaches a dongle driver (see below for more info)
-s starts discovery of remote IrDA devices
+ -b do not fork to background
Dongles:
diff -ru irda-utils-0.9.16.orig/man/man-irattach-inc.sgml
irda-utils-0.9.16/man/man-irattach-inc.sgml
--- irda-utils-0.9.16.orig/man/man-irattach-inc.sgml 2003-11-13
15:55:09.000000000 +0100
+++ irda-utils-0.9.16/man/man-irattach-inc.sgml 2005-10-15 00:35:26.000000000
+0200
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
<ARG><REPLACEABLE>-s</REPLACEABLE></ARG>
<ARG><REPLACEABLE>-d dongle</REPLACEABLE></ARG>
<ARG><REPLACEABLE>-v</REPLACEABLE></ARG>
+ <ARG><REPLACEABLE>-b</REPLACEABLE></ARG>
<ARG><REPLACEABLE>-h</REPLACEABLE></ARG>
</CMDSYNOPSIS>
</REFSYNOPSISDIV>
@@ -136,6 +137,10 @@
</PARA>
<PARA>
+<OPTION>-b</OPTION> : do not fork to background
+</PARA>
+
+<PARA>
<OPTION>-h</OPTION> : shows help information.
</PARA>
