libdaemon 0.14

   Copyright 2003-2009 Lennart Poettering 

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     * [1]License

     * [2]News

     * [3]Overview

     * [4]Current Status

     * [5]Documentation

     * [6]Requirements

     * [7]Installation

     * [8]Acknowledgements

     * [9]Download

License

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it

   under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published

   by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2.1 of the License, or

   (at your option) any later version.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but

   WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser

   General Public License for more details.

News

   Sun Oct 18 2009:

   [10]Version 0.14 released; changes include: add daemon_set_verbosity()

   call; numerous updates

   Tue Jul 29 2008:

   [11]Version 0.13 released; changes include: add daemon_reset_sigs() and

   daemon_unblock_sigs() calls for resetting signal handlers to sensible

   states; improve error handling.

   Tue Jul 10 2007:

   [12]Version 0.12 released; changes include: make daemon_close_all()

   actually work properly.

   Fri Jun 22 2007:

   [13]Version 0.11 released; changes include: automatically detect

   whether lynx is installed; properly set errno on every error condition;

   add new function daemon_close_all() to close all open file descriptors

   except a given set; add daemon_logv(), which is identical to

   daemon_log(), but takes a va_list argument; add daemon_execv() in

   similar style; other fixes

   Thu Nov 24 2005:

   [14]Version 0.10 released; changes include: make logging compatible

   with daemons running in a chroot() environment

   Fri Nov 18 2005:

   [15]Version 0.9 released; changes include: portability (FreeBSD,

   NetBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, Solaris, Cygwin); some minor header file

   cleanups; fix access mode of PID files; other cleanups; license change

   from GPL to LGPL

   Sat Jun 4 2005:

   [16]Version 0.8 released; changes include: proper PID file locking

   Sat Dec 18 2004:

   [17]Version 0.7 released; changes include: minor cleanups; C++

   compatibility; gcc 2.95 compatiblity

   Wed Apr 7 2004:

   [18]Version 0.6 released; changes include: backgrounding fixes, minor

   other stuff

   Tue Feb 10 2004:

   [19]Version 0.5 released; changes include: signal handling fix, forking

   fix

   Sat Jan 10 2004:

   [20]Version 0.4 released; changes include: new module dexec.c; added

   pkg-config support.

   Mon Oct 20 2003:

   [21]Version 0.3 released; changes include: documentation update, build

   fixes, RPM spec file added, added new function int

   daemon_pid_file_kill_wait().

   Thu July 10 2003:

   [22]Version 0.2 released; changes include: ugly umask error fix,

   documentation update

   Mon July 7 2003:

   [23]Version 0.1 released

Overview

   libdaemon is a lightweight C library that eases the writing of UNIX

   daemons. It consists of the following parts:

     * A wrapper around fork() which does the correct daemonization

       procedure of a process

     * A wrapper around syslog() for simpler and compatible log output to

       Syslog or STDERR

     * An API for writing PID files

     * An API for serializing UNIX signals into a pipe for usage with

       select() or poll()

     * An API for running subprocesses with STDOUT and STDERR redirected

       to syslog.

   APIs like these are used in most daemon software available. It is not

   that simple to get it done right and code duplication is not a goal.

   libdaemon is currently used by [24]ifplugd, [25]Avahi, [26]ivam2,

   [27]Nautilus-Share and [28]aeswepd.

Current Status

   Version 0.14 is feature complete.

Documentation

   An extensive API reference is [29]available

Requirements

   libdaemon was developed and tested on Debian GNU/Linux "testing" from

   July 2003, it should work on most other Linux distributions (and some

   Unix versions) since it uses GNU Autoconf and GNU libtool for source

   code configuration and shared library management.

   libdaemon is known to work on modern Linux systems, FreeBSD, NetBSD,

   OpenBSD, Darwin, Solaris and Windows/Cygwin.

Installation

   As this package is made with the GNU autotools you should run

   ./configure inside the distribution directory for configuring the

   source tree. After that you should run make for compilation and make

   install (as root) for installation of libdaemon.

   Please use gmake instead of traditional make for compilation on

   non-Linux systems.

Acknowledgements

   Sebastien Estienne, for a lot of portability work.

Download

   The newest release is always available from

   [30]http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/

   Get libdaemon's development sources from the [31]GIT [32]repository

   ([33]gitweb):

git clone git://git.0pointer.de/libdaemon

   You may find an up to date Debian package of libdaemon on the

   [34]Debian package repository.

   If you want to be notified whenever I release a new version of this

   software use the subscription feature of [35]Freshmeat.

     __________________________________________________________________

    Lennart Poettering <mzqnrzba (at) 0pointer (dot) de>, October 2009

References

   1. README#license

   2. README#news

   3. README#overview

   4. README#status

   5. README#documentation

   6. README#requirements

   7. README#installation

   8. README#acks

   9. README#download

  10. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/libdaemon-0.14.tar.gz

  11. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/libdaemon-0.13.tar.gz

  12. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/libdaemon-0.12.tar.gz

  13. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/libdaemon-0.11.tar.gz

  14. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/libdaemon-0.10.tar.gz

  15. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/libdaemon-0.9.tar.gz

  16. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/libdaemon-0.8.tar.gz

  17. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/libdaemon-0.7.tar.gz

  18. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/libdaemon-0.6.tar.gz

  19. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/libdaemon-0.5.tar.gz

  20. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/libdaemon-0.4.tar.gz

  21. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/libdaemon-0.3.tar.gz

  22. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/libdaemon-0.2.tar.gz

  23. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/libdaemon-0.1.tar.gz

  24. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/ifplugd/

  25. http://freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi

  26. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/ivam2/

  27. http://gentoo.ovibes.net/nautilus-share/mediawiki-1.4.4/index.php/Accueil

  28. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/aeswepd/

  29. reference/html/index.html

  30. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/

  31. http://git.or.cz/

  32. git://git.0pointer.de/libdaemon

  33. http://git.0pointer.de/?p=libdaemon.git

  34. http://packages.debian.org/libdaemon0

  35. http://freshmeat.net/projects/libdaemon/