introduce nscd --foreground, for systemd use
Roland McGrath
roland@hack.frob.com
Mon Jan 23 22:03:00 GMT 2012
This seems generally sound to me. But I'd like to know if there is any
existing precedent for an option letter and/or long option name for doing
this in another GNU utility.
> +/* Default is to daemonize. Set to 1 to run in foreground in
> + debugging mode, or negative to run in foreground but otherwise
> + behave like a daemon, i.e., detach from terminal and use
> + syslog. */
> +static int run_in_foreground = 0;
Perhaps cleaner to have two bools.
> + fprintf (stderr, _("further output sent to syslog\n"));
What's the point of this message? It's not normal for daemon startup to
print anything to stderr in my experience.
Thanks,
Roland
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