2005-08-23 08:10:02 +00:00
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config BR2_PACKAGE_LIBDAEMON
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tristate "libdaemon - A lightweight C library that eases the writing of UNIX daemons"
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2005-09-20 01:35:03 +00:00
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default m if CONFIG_DEVEL
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2005-08-23 08:10:02 +00:00
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help
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libdaemon is a lightweight C library that eases the writing of UNIX daemons.
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It consists of the following parts:
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* A wrapper around fork() which does the correct daemonization procedure of a process
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* A wrapper around syslog() for simpler and compatible log output to Syslog or STDERR
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* An API for writing PID files
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* An API for serializing UNIX signals into a pipe for usage with select() or poll()
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* An API for running subprocesses with STDOUT and STDERR redirected to syslog.
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APIs like these are used in most daemon software available. It is not that
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simple to get it done right and code duplication is not a goal.
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http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/
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