Re: git-daemon problem

From: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Date: Jul 13, 2006, 11:42 UTC
Message-ID: <20060713114221.GU11245@skl-net.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vveq2ukho.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 22:44, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> The only "right" solution I could think of is to properly
> daemonize git-daemon when not running under --inetd mode.  Close
> and open /dev/null the low three fds, and dissociate the process
> from the controlling terminal (did I forget anything else --
> perhaps chdir("/") at the top?).  And we keep the current
> behaviour of assuming the sane set of low three fds when a new
> option --debug is given to help people look at its stderr.  The
> tentative patch to upload-pack would become moot at that point.
> 
> Hmm?

A common solution for this problem is

	while (1) {
		int     fd;

		fd = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR);
		if (fd < 0)
			exit(EX_OSERR);
		if (fd > 2) {
			close(fd);
			break;
		}
	}

See

	http://rechner.lst.de/~okir/blackhats/node41.html

Andre

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