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# libdaemon
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2024-01-06 04:04:05 +01:00
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libdaemon is a lightweight C library that eases the writing of UNIX daemons. 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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