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Subject: Re: Who's HUPing my daemon?
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On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Gregory Bond wrote:

> I'm suspicious that just a plain fork() is not enough to disconnect from the 
> boot sequence but I can't work out what's causing the HUP.  Suggestions?

  Probably.  You need to detach from the terminal, or you'll get a HUP
when the terminal session ends.  If it is your code, you might want to
catch HUP and do nothing.

Tom


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