On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 17:57:51 -0400 Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Steve Litt > <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:03:31 +0200 > > berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > >> > >> I forgot that systemd is able to "spy" processes it starts, IIRC, > >> to avoid tricks like the double fork, which means a better control > >> on zombie processes. Don't know much about that, though. > > > > Dam, dude, doublefork is how my Umenu hierarchical menu works. If > > that breaks, a program I've used since 1998 goes down the toilet. > > > > Let me ask you this: If doublefork is banned, how does one keep > > working with the child program when the parent is terminated, > > without using that stupid nohup command that continually grows its > > own, huge and insecure nohup.out files, in whatever its current > > directory happens to be? > > > > I certainly hope that systemd isn't cancelling a design pattern used > > since the dawn of time. > > You can use "Type=forking" in a service file.
In other words, it's going to bust my program, right? SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140709000715.70127...@mydesq2.domain.cxm
