]] Konstantin Khomoutov | Doesn't exactly the same problem exist with "classic" daemons? | I mean, as soon as a daemon being started forked once, the parent | instance has no idea whether the forked instance actually managed to | complete initialization, and if it did then when. Unless some sort of | communication channel is used.
A well-behaved double-forking daemon doesn't do the second fork until it's ready to serve requests. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/878vrakg0r....@qurzaw.varnish-software.com