On 2009 Jan 25, at 6:57, Krzysztof Skrzętnicki wrote:
When you succeed please write about it - I'd love to read about it! I was interested in writing a deamon in the past but didn't have time for it and a nice tutorial would probably help a lot.
I should mention that the easiest way to write a daemon is to use inetd/xinetd (or launchd, SMF, etc. as appropriate for OS); you then only need to deal with stdin/stdout, and you generally get tcp- wrappers for free instead of having to find/make libwrap bindings. (Also, if you write yourself a nice daemon library, someone will probably ask for it to be ported to create Windows services. Which gets a big "damfino" from me, at least.) -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH