Re: [tor-dev] start_daemon and finish_daemon

2012-06-13 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: > >  * The parent process can learn about and report some common kinds of > initialization failure, and >  * The parent process doesn't exit until the child is well and truly launched. Thanks, that makes a lot of sense. I ask because I was u

Re: [tor-dev] start_daemon and finish_daemon

2012-06-13 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: > Why is the process of going into daemon mode (on Unix) split into two > functions, start_daemon and finish_daemon? It's been so long since we added that code; I hope I remember. If I've got it right, the idea is that you call start_daemon()

[tor-dev] start_daemon and finish_daemon

2012-06-13 Thread Zack Weinberg
Why is the process of going into daemon mode (on Unix) split into two functions, start_daemon and finish_daemon? zw ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev