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tomcio

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-08-14

Posts: 113

Re: Writing daemon in C++

Hello!

I'm working on some kind of UNIX daemon in C++. My server isn't a regular daemon (it's not launched by init process but by normal users (mostly) in their X sessions), so it share so similarities with unix daemons.

I have problem with initializing my daemon. Usually in child processes created by fork() we close all standard I/O streams (stdout, stdin, stderr). I how to do it with C library, but I'm not sure what to do with I/O streams from standard C++ library.

I don't know how to close cin, cout, clog and cerr streams...

RobSeace

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From: Boston, MA

Registered: 2002-06-12

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Re: Writing daemon in C++

You don't need to care about the higher-level streams, anymore than you need to
care about the stdio FILE pointers in plain C...  Just close the low-level file descriptors,
and/or reopen "/dev/null" on top of them, the same as you would in C...

vgupta

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Registered: 2010-08-12

Posts: 3

Re: Writing daemon in C++

Here's a simple implementation to create a Daemon
Creating a Daemon in Linux

tomcio

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-08-14

Posts: 113

Re: Writing daemon in C++

Interesting link, thank you