May. 27th, 2013 15:59
Proposal for a new syscall
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cospitchfork() - daemon fork
Much like fork(), except that the new child automatically also setsid()'s and:
- Has a umask of 0 and working directory "/"
- SIGHUP set to ignore
- Gets new stdin, stdout, stderr handles, all tied to /dev/null
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Much like fork(), except that the new child automatically also setsid()'s and:
- Has a umask of 0 and working directory "/"
- SIGHUP set to ignore
- Gets new stdin, stdout, stderr handles, all tied to /dev/null
[ Apologizes to non-unix-geek readers. Maybe you'll like my next post. ]
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In all seriousness, of course it shouldn't be a new syscall, but it would make a lot of sense to write a little thing called libdaemon that did this sort of thing right, maybe ship it with libc? While I'm dreaming, it could be packaged with gflags and a few other things to encourage people to write their C tools in a standard non-insane way.