Re: RFC: implement daemon() in the kernel

[Michal Schmidt]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Simon Richter wrote:
> > int daemon(int nochdir, int noclose)
> > {
> >     if(!nochdir)
> >         chdir("/");
> >
> >     if(!noclose)
> >     {
> >         int fd = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR);
> >         dup2(fd, 0);
> >         dup2(fd, 1);
> >         dup2(fd, 2);
> >         close(fd);
> >     }
> >
> >     if(fork() > 0)
>
> ... that should be if (fork() == 0) ...

Are you sure? fork()==0 means we're the child, but it's the parent who 
should exit, isn't it?

> >         _exit(0);
>
>     setsid();
> > }

Michal
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