The most trivial hack you can do is replace 'getchar()' with sleep(-1). That should work for the minimal requirements you formulate.
Cleaner implementations would install a signal handler (sigaction()) and send a message through a pipe(2) to unblock. Happy hacking! Christian On 06/10/2015 06:26 PM, Joan Puigcerver wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to use libmicrohttpd to build a small HTTP server to run > in background in my Linux system. Right now, this is the structure of > the main function of my server: > > ---------- > struct MHD_Daemon *daemon; > daemon = MHD_start_daemon( > MHD_USE_DEBUG | MHD_USE_THREAD_PER_CONNECTION | > MHD_USE_SELECT_INTERNALLY, > port_, NULL, NULL, &answer_to_connection, index_, > MHD_OPTION_THREAD_POOL_SIZE, 8, > MHD_OPTION_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT, 120, > MHD_OPTION_END); > if (NULL == daemon) return 1; > getchar(); > MHD_stop_daemon (daemon); > return 0; > ---------- > > However, the previous approach does not work when I try to launch the > server in background, since getchar() read an EOF and the server > terminates. I just want to hang the main thread until the process is > killed (kill -9 or Ctrl+C). > > I tried to do: > > pthread_join(daemon->pid); > > But MHD_Daemon is only declared in "microhttpd.h", and it is defined > in some other file, so I cannot access the pid attribute. > > So, what is the proper way to do what I want? > > Many thanks, > Joan. >
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