In our previous episode, Wimpie Nortje said: > Marco van de Voort wrote: > > In our previous episode, Wimpie Nortje said: > > > >> I am writing an application using lazdaemon. How does one stop the > >> daemon gracefully, ie not killing it. > >> > >> The wiki says the daemon runs until it receives the TERM signal. THe > >> only way I know to send the TERM signal is using 'kill'. This kills the > >> app rather letting it exit gracefully. > >> > > > > Known issue, see > > > > http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=14741 > > > > there are some more signals that are handled. > > > Are there plans to fix/change this, or must I implement some kind of pid > check myself?
No plans yet. The problem is also a bit that whatever you do is an island. I think this is more something for freedesktop to standarize first. > I also see a mention of a '-b' parameter in the report but it doesn't > daemonize my application. Is it new? I am using fpc 2.2.4 It's in combination with start only. I just happened to look in those sources today before your msg because of the above report. I don't know the history. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
