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