Re: [tor-dev] start_daemon and finish_daemon

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Nick Mathewson nickm@alum.mit.edu 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 using util.c as a reference for adding daemon mode support to Stegotorus; I might adopt a similar scheme (there are similar initialization-sequencing headaches) but probably not till I get around to the badly-needed Real Command Line Parser.

zw