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daemon: Remove short options from daemon library

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The daemon library provides a few short options, but these then take
away their availability from programs that wish to use the library.
Since the daemon options are generally going to be called from a script
(which doesn't care how much typing is involved), we'll only provide
long options.
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Justin Pettit
2009-08-05 14:20:24 -07:00
parent 8093d640ac
commit e7bd7d78b1
6 changed files with 48 additions and 46 deletions
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lib/daemon.man
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@@ -1,28 +1,27 @@
.TP
\fB-P\fR[\fIpidfile\fR], \fB--pidfile\fR[\fB=\fIpidfile\fR]
\fB--pidfile\fR[\fB=\fIpidfile\fR]
Causes a file (by default, \fB\*(PN.pid\fR) to be created indicating
the PID of the running process. If \fIpidfile\fR is not specified, or
if it does not begin with \fB/\fR, then it is created in
\fB@RUNDIR@\fR.
.TP
\fB-f\fR, \fB--force\fR
By default, when \fB-P\fR or \fB--pidfile\fR is specified and the
specified pidfile already exists and is locked by a running process,
\fB\*(PN\fR refuses to start. Specify \fB-f\fR or \fB--force\fR
to cause it to instead overwrite the pidfile.
\fB--overwrite-pidfile\fR
By default, when \fB--pidfile\fR is specified and the specified pidfile
already exists and is locked by a running process, \fB\*(PN\fR refuses
to start. Specify \fB--overwrite-pidfile\fR to cause it to instead
overwrite the pidfile.
When \fB-P\fR or \fB--pidfile\fR is not specified, this option has no
effect.
When \fB--pidfile\fR is not specified, this option has no effect.
.TP
\fB-D\fR, \fB--detach\fR
\fB--detach\fR
Causes \fB\*(PN\fR to detach itself from the foreground session and
run as a background process.
.TP
\fB--no-chdir\fR
By default, when \fB-D\fR or \fB--detach\fR is specified, \fB\*(PN\fR
By default, when \fB--detach\fR is specified, \fB\*(PN\fR
changes its current working directory to the root directory after it
detaches. Otherwise, invoking \fB\*(PN\fR from a carelessly chosen
directory would prevent the administrator from unmounting the file
@@ -34,5 +33,4 @@ useful for collecting core files, since it is common behavior to write
core dumps into the current working directory and the root directory
is not a good directory to use.
.IP
This option has no effect when neither \fB-D\fR nor \fB--detach\fR is
specified.
This option has no effect when \fB--detach\fR is not specified.