Re: propsal: all daemons should chdir / on startup
Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:
> I've noticed what seems to be a common problem lately: daemons that do not
> chdir / on startup. The problem is, if you mount a debina cd on /mnt, cd to
> /mnt, install some daemons, then /mnt is always busy after that and cannot
> be unmounted. The solution is to add a chdir / to the daemon's startup code
> or to the init.d script.
A daemon that doesn't cd to /, or close all fd's, or set itself up as
a session leader, is simply buggy upstream. Try to fix the C code
rather than code around it in the /etc/init.d, and recommend to the
upstream author that he buy a copy of Stevens "Advanced Programming in
the Unix Environment".
Guy
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