"Nikola Milutinovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Good point.
>
> "Every well written daemon" will do the following:
>
> 1. parse input and complain if necessary
> 2. spawn a child and exit
> 3. a child will close STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR
> 4. a child will catch/ignore SIGHUP, SIGTERM, ...
> 5. a child will spawn a daemon process and exit.
>
> Is this possible in Java? I don't thnink Java application can spawn another
> process, it can spawn a thread. Can it close it's connections to the
> controlling terminal? Tomcat seams to do it. Can it ignore/catch signals?
Sure it's possible :) There's also some code I wrote that does exactly that
(CVS repository jakarta-tomcat-service)... Works pretty well under Solaris
and MacOS/X 10.0/10.1
Pier
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