1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-15"?> <!-- -*-html-helper-*- --> 2<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> 3<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 4 5<head> 6<title>libdaemon @PACKAGE_VERSION@</title> 7<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" /> 8</head> 9 10<body> 11<h1><a name="top">libdaemon @PACKAGE_VERSION@</a></h1> 12 13<p><i>Copyright 2003-2009 Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@></i></p> 14 15<ul class="toc"> 16 <li><a href="#license">License</a></li> 17 <li><a href="#news">News</a></li> 18 <li><a href="#overview">Overview</a></li> 19 <li><a href="#status">Current Status</a></li> 20 <li><a href="#documentation">Documentation</a></li> 21 <li><a href="#requirements">Requirements</a></li> 22 <li><a href="#installation">Installation</a></li> 23 <li><a href="#acks">Acknowledgements</a></li> 24 <li><a href="#download">Download</a></li> 25</ul> 26 27<h2><a name="license">License</a></h2> 28 29<p>Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of 30this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in 31the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to 32use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies 33of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do 34so, subject to the following conditions:</p> 35 36<p>The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all 37copies or substantial portions of the Software.</p> 38 39<p>THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR 40IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, 41FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE 42AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER 43LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, 44OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE 45SOFTWARE.</p> 46 47<h2><a name="news">News</a></h2> 48 49<div class="news-date">Sun Aug 29 2012: </div> 50<p class="news-text"><a href="@PACKAGE_URL@libdaemon-0.14.tar.gz">Version 0.15</a> license change from LGPL to MIT</p> 51 52<div class="news-date">Sun Oct 18 2009: </div> 53<p class="news-text"><a href="@PACKAGE_URL@libdaemon-0.14.tar.gz">Version 0.14</a> released; changes include: add <tt>daemon_set_verbosity()</tt> call; numerous updates</p> 54 55<div class="news-date">Tue Jul 29 2008: </div> 56<p class="news-text"><a href="@PACKAGE_URL@libdaemon-0.13.tar.gz">Version 0.13</a> released; changes include: add <tt>daemon_reset_sigs()</tt> and <tt>daemon_unblock_sigs()</tt> calls for resetting signal handlers to sensible states; improve error handling.</p> 57 58<div class="news-date">Tue Jul 10 2007: </div> 59<p class="news-text"><a href="@PACKAGE_URL@libdaemon-0.12.tar.gz">Version 0.12</a> released; changes include: make <tt>daemon_close_all()</tt> actually work properly.</p> 60 61<div class="news-date">Fri Jun 22 2007: </div> 62<p class="news-text"><a href="@PACKAGE_URL@libdaemon-0.11.tar.gz">Version 0.11</a> released; changes include: automatically detect whether lynx is installed; properly set <tt>errno</tt> on every error condition; add new function <tt>daemon_close_all()</tt> to close all open file descriptors except a given set; add <tt>daemon_logv()</tt>, which is identical to <tt>daemon_log()</tt>, but takes a <tt>va_list</tt> argument; add <tt>daemon_execv()</tt> in similar style; other fixes</p> 63 64<div class="news-date">Thu Nov 24 2005: </div> 65<p class="news-text"><a href="@PACKAGE_URL@libdaemon-0.10.tar.gz">Version 0.10</a> released; changes include: make logging compatible with daemons running in a <tt>chroot()</tt> environment</p> 66 67<div class="news-date">Fri Nov 18 2005: </div> 68<p class="news-text"><a href="@PACKAGE_URL@libdaemon-0.9.tar.gz">Version 0.9</a> released; changes include: portability (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, Solaris, Cygwin); some minor header file cleanups; fix access mode of PID files; other cleanups; license change from GPL to LGPL</p> 69 70<div class="news-date">Sat Jun 4 2005: </div> 71<p class="news-text"><a href="@PACKAGE_URL@libdaemon-0.8.tar.gz">Version 0.8</a> released; changes include: proper PID file locking</p> 72 73<div class="news-date">Sat Dec 18 2004: </div> 74<p class="news-text"><a href="@PACKAGE_URL@libdaemon-0.7.tar.gz">Version 0.7</a> released; changes include: minor cleanups; C++ compatibility; gcc 2.95 compatiblity</p> 75 76<div class="news-date">Wed Apr 7 2004: </div> 77<p class="news-text"><a href="@PACKAGE_URL@libdaemon-0.6.tar.gz">Version 0.6</a> released; changes include: backgrounding fixes, minor other stuff</p> 78 79<div class="news-date">Tue Feb 10 2004: </div> 80<p class="news-text"><a href="@PACKAGE_URL@libdaemon-0.5.tar.gz">Version 0.5</a> released; changes include: signal handling fix, forking fix</p> 81 82<div class="news-date">Sat Jan 10 2004: </div> 83<p class="news-text"><a href="@PACKAGE_URL@libdaemon-0.4.tar.gz">Version 0.4</a> released; changes include: new module <tt>dexec.c</tt>; added <tt>pkg-config</tt> support.</p> 84 85<div class="news-date">Mon Oct 20 2003: </div> 86<p class="news-text"><a href="@PACKAGE_URL@libdaemon-0.3.tar.gz">Version 0.3</a> released; changes include: documentation update, build fixes, RPM spec file added, added new function int <tt>daemon_pid_file_kill_wait()</tt>.</p> 87 88<div class="news-date">Thu July 10 2003: </div> 89<p class="news-text"><a href="@PACKAGE_URL@libdaemon-0.2.tar.gz">Version 0.2</a> released; changes include: ugly umask error fix, documentation update</p> 90 91<div class="news-date">Mon July 7 2003: </div> 92<p class="news-text"><a href="@PACKAGE_URL@libdaemon-0.1.tar.gz">Version 0.1</a> released</p> 93 94<h2><a name="overview">Overview</a></h2> 95 96<p><tt>libdaemon</tt> is a lightweight C library that eases the writing of UNIX 97daemons. It consists of the following parts:</p> 98 99<ul> 100 <li>A wrapper around <tt>fork()</tt> which does the correct 101 daemonization procedure of a process</li> 102 103 <li>A wrapper around <tt>syslog()</tt> for simpler and compatible 104 log output to Syslog or STDERR</li> 105 106 <li>An API for writing PID files</li> 107 108 <li>An API for serializing UNIX signals into a pipe for 109 usage with <tt>select()</tt> or <tt>poll()</tt></li> 110 111 <li>An API for running subprocesses with STDOUT and STDERR redirected to syslog.</li> 112</ul> 113 114<p>APIs like these are used in most daemon software 115available. It is not that simple to get it done right and code 116duplication is not a goal.</p> 117 118<p><tt>libdaemon</tt> is currently used by <a 119href="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/ifplugd/"><tt>ifplugd</tt></a>, 120<a 121href="http://freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi">Avahi</a>, 122<a 123href="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/ivam2/"><tt>ivam2</tt></a>, 124<a href="http://gentoo.ovibes.net/nautilus-share/mediawiki-1.4.4/index.php/Accueil">Nautilus-Share</a> 125and <a 126href="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/aeswepd/"><tt>aeswepd</tt></a>.</p> 127 128<h2><a name="status">Current Status</a></h2> 129 130<p>Version @PACKAGE_VERSION@ is feature complete.</p> 131 132<h2><a name="documentation">Documentation</a></h2> 133 134<p>An extensive API reference is <a 135href="reference/html/index.html">available</a></p> 136 137<h2><a name="requirements">Requirements</a></h2> 138 139<p><tt>libdaemon</tt> was developed and tested on Debian GNU/Linux 140"testing" from July 2003, it should work on most other Linux 141distributions (and some Unix versions) since it uses GNU Autoconf and 142GNU libtool for source code configuration and shared library 143management.</p> 144 145<p><tt>libdaemon</tt> is known to work on modern Linux systems, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, Solaris and Windows/Cygwin.</p> 146 147<h2><a name="installation">Installation</a></h2> 148 149<p>As this package is made with the GNU autotools you should run 150<tt>./configure</tt> inside the distribution directory for configuring 151the source tree. After that you should run <tt>make</tt> for 152compilation and <tt>make install</tt> (as root) for installation of 153<tt>libdaemon</tt>.</p> 154 155<p>Please use <tt>gmake</tt> instead of traditional <tt>make</tt> for compilation on non-Linux systems.</p> 156 157<h2><a name="acks">Acknowledgements</a></h2> 158 159<p>Sebastien Estienne, for a lot of portability work.</p> 160 161<h2><a name="download">Download</a></h2> 162 163<p>The newest release is always available from <a href="@PACKAGE_URL@">@PACKAGE_URL@</a></p> 164 165<p>Get <tt>libdaemon</tt>'s development sources from the <a href="http://git.or.cz/">GIT</a> <a href="git://git.0pointer.de/libdaemon">repository</a> (<a href="http://git.0pointer.de/?p=libdaemon.git">gitweb</a>): </p> 166 167<pre>git clone git://git.0pointer.de/libdaemon</pre> 168 169<p>You may find an up to date Debian package of <tt>libdaemon</tt> on the <a href="http://packages.debian.org/libdaemon0">Debian package repository</a>.</p> 170 171<p>If you want to be notified whenever I release a new version of this software use the subscription feature of <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/libdaemon/">Freshmeat</a>.</p> 172 173<hr/> 174<address class="grey">Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>, October 2009</address> 175 176</body> 177</html> 178