Re: [Caml-list] Closing all open file descriptors

[Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com>]

Dave Benjamin wrote:

> Did your program "daemonize" at all, then? Or did you use daemontools?

Yes, it called Unix.fork and then in the child called Unix.setsid.

Err, what's daemontools?

> I can see how it might be annoying to try to make a daemon run on stdio 
> instead, and not being able to keep the file handles open... but it 
> seems like daemons could be written to work either way if designed with 
> some care.

My program has passes around a logging function of type "string -> unit".
If it not a daemon it uses print_endline for logging and if it is a daemon 
it uses a wrapper around syslog (via the debian/ubuntu libsyslog-ocaml-dev)
package.

> Yeah, the whole operation could be done in a C function too, and 
> probably wouldn't be much more code to write.

My daemon is only tiny, but I'm, still glad its in Ocaml.

Erik
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