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Re: [bug-inetutils] Re: [PATCH 3/4] use daemon from the C library when p
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Mike Frysinger |
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Re: [bug-inetutils] Re: [PATCH 3/4] use daemon from the C library when possible |
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Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:38:53 -0500 |
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On Sunday, November 21, 2010 17:23:42 Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> > The 'daemon' function is not documented in the glibc manual, and
> > it is not standardized by POSIX. Should we use it? Perhaps we
> > should treat it the same way as 'ruserpass'.
>
> it's in all BSD variants and all Linux variants.
>
> Linux doesn't provide this function, what you are refering to is
> called the GNU system.
no, it's really not. daemon() can be found in all usable C libraries that run
under Linux that i'm aware of. only one of which is GNU (glibc).
> Many people don't know about the GNU system,
> and the GNU project and what it does. You can help us spread that
> knowledge by talking about GNU when you talk about GNU-powered
> software distributions (a la GNU/Linux instead of just Linux).
not a chance. indoctrinate someone else.
-mike
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