Comments on: Daemonize Anything http://blog.apokalyptik.com/2008/04/10/daemonize-anything/ The random things that spew forth from my brain... Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:58:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1-alpha By: NuAngel http://blog.apokalyptik.com/2008/04/10/daemonize-anything/comment-page-1/#comment-7768 NuAngel Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:15:46 +0000 http://blog.apokalyptik.com/?p=280#comment-7768 Hey man, it's Nu!! Are the IRC's still in one piece anywhere? Lookin' to get ahold of a few people, Aly, EE, etc... Stop by and leave a comment on my site (now: WinBreak.com) or just look me on on a messenger service: AIM: RotatingFlavors MSN: NuAngel@hotmail.com Hey man, it’s Nu!! Are the IRC’s still in one piece anywhere? Lookin’ to get ahold of a few people, Aly, EE, etc…

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]]> By: Nikolay http://blog.apokalyptik.com/2008/04/10/daemonize-anything/comment-page-1/#comment-7737 Nikolay Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:47:08 +0000 http://blog.apokalyptik.com/?p=280#comment-7737 If you want to redirect all the output of the program to a file, you don't need to fork yet another process with <code>popen()</code>: freopen( "/path/to/logfile", "a", stdout); freopen( "/path/to/logfile", "a", stderr); exec[l|v]p( command, ... ); Thus you can get both stdout and stderr, you don't spawn another process and you don't open and close the log file on every 1024 chars. Of course, the error checking was omitted :-) If you want to redirect all the output of the program to a file, you don’t need to fork yet another process with popen():

freopen( “/path/to/logfile”, “a”, stdout);
freopen( “/path/to/logfile”, “a”, stderr);
exec[l|v]p( command, … );

Thus you can get both stdout and stderr, you don’t spawn another process and you don’t open and close the log file on every 1024 chars. Of course, the error checking was omitted :-)

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