From: Chris Morris <chrismo@...>
Date: 2001-01-02T13:17:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8490] Translate daemon code to Windows?

I'm trying to get httpd and rwiki to work on 95 and both have init code to
set itself up as a daemon (following is rwiki):

    # Run as a daemon...
    exit! if fork
    Process.setsid
    exit! if fork
    STDIN.close
    STDOUT.close
    STDERR.close
    DRb.thread.join

I dinked with this a few days ago and it didn't seem to work, though at the
moment I can't recall the problems I ran into. Should this work as is on
Windows? If not, what are my options?

Ah, wait. I remember the issue I had (questions above still stand) ... I
believe this worked fine on Windows, I just had no convenient way of
shutting it down. httpd sets up traps:

    ["SIGTERM", "SIGHUP", "SIGINT"].each{ |sig|
      trap sig, lambda { shutdown }
    }

... to call an internal shutdown proc, and I very quickly was lost. The
signals were POSIX signals and I have no idea what any of that means and if
it even applies to Windows. Help me Obi-wan...


Chris