On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 16:08:49 +0100,
Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A while ago we received the bug report below against pg_autovacuum. Since it runs as a daemon, it should detach from its controlling terminal by executing sth like
int nullfd = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR); dup2(nullfd, 0); dup2(nullfd, 1); dup2(nullfd, 2); if (nullfd != 0 && nullfd != 1 && nullfd != 2) close(nullfd);
(taken from syslog-ng which does it properly).
That doesn't look like a good idea. This will prevent any logging to stdout or stderr.
If you don't want that ability you can redirect the stdin, stdout and stderr yourself.
I have stayed quiet about this since I wanted to hear what others thought of the above suggest fix. I took the detach code straight from the postmaster daemonize function. Perhaps I didn't do something right but that was the example I followed. Thoughts? Anyone else had this problem?
BTW, I think this will be moon in 7.5 since it looks like pg_autovaccum will be launched by the postmaster.
Matthew
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