On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:03:31 +0200 > berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: >> >> I forgot that systemd is able to "spy" processes it starts, IIRC, to >> avoid tricks like the double fork, which means a better control on >> zombie processes. Don't know much about that, though. > > Dam, dude, doublefork is how my Umenu hierarchical menu works. If that > breaks, a program I've used since 1998 goes down the toilet. > > Let me ask you this: If doublefork is banned, how does one keep working > with the child program when the parent is terminated, without using > that stupid nohup command that continually grows its own, huge and > insecure nohup.out files, in whatever its current directory happens to > be? > > I certainly hope that systemd isn't cancelling a design pattern used > since the dawn of time.
You can use "Type=forking" in a service file. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=SyCSJSvpKx2UeUJnwc0Xr-=7ooba6xiotqklqtew5b...@mail.gmail.com
