Re: How to properly daemonize?

[Piotr Meyer <aniou%smutek.pl@localhost>]

On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 06:16:24PM -0400, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> >A better design would be to just use a pipe and write the status to
> >that. No signals necessary. Parents knows if the status read from the
> >pipe is bad OR you get EOF, initialisation went wrong.
> 
> Meh, I fail to see how that's "better"; merely different.

IMHO that problem was already faced by supervisor's authors - for
example s6's author puts some thoughts and summaries on their pages:

http://skarnet.org/software/s6/ftrig.html
http://skarnet.org/software/s6/libs6/ftrigr.html

- maybe it will be useful for someone?

Regards,
-- 
Piotr 'aniou' Meyer