Re: [PATCH 8/8] services: Add spice vdagent service.

[Ludovic Courtès]

David Craven <address@hidden> skribis:

>> If spice-vdagend produces a PID file, make sure to use #:pid-file here
>> (there are several examples in the tree), which often provides more
>> reliable startup notification.
>
> I'm passing the -x flag which prevents spice-vdagentd from
> daemonizing. I thought that make-forkexec-constructor took care of
> setting the correct stdout stderr stdin user process-parent and pid
> file automatically. Is that not the way it's intended to be used?

It is, but it can also wait until a PID file is created:

  
https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/manual/html_node/Service-De_002d-and-Constructors.html

HTH!

Ludo’.