Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/11/13/13:14:30
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 05:09:03PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
>Hi,
>
>when starting a daemon from the console, the console will not close
>before the daemon finishes.
>
>Try, e.g:
>
>$ /usr/sbin/syslogd
>$ exit
>
>Shell exits, but console window persists until syslogd is terminated.
>
>Workaround:
>
> setsid();
>+ #ifdef __CYGWIN__
>+ FreeConsole();
>+ #endif
>
>
>The attached program demonstrates the issue.
The attached program demonstrates the assumption that only
stdin/stdout/stderr are open when the program is started. A shell could
conceivably keep other fds open.
Try applying the below patch to gain the behavior that you want.
cgf
--- testsetsid.cc.orig 2005-11-13 12:34:28.000000000 -0500
+++ testsetsid.cc 2005-11-13 13:10:30.000000000 -0500
@@ -6,8 +6,10 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
{
if (fork())
return 0;
+ int nfds = getdtablesize ();
- fclose(stdin); fclose(stdout); fclose(stderr);
+ for (int i = 0; i < nfds; i++)
+ close (i);
setsid();
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