                                 libdaemon 0.6

   Copyright  2003,2004  Lennart Poettering <mzqnrzba (at) 0pointer (dot)
   de>
     * [1]License
     * [2]News
     * [3]Overview
     * [4]Status
     * [5]Documentation
     * [6]Requirements
     * [7]Installation
     * [8]Acknowledgements
     * [9]Download

License

   This  program  is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it  under  the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the  Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
   your option) any later version.

   This  program  is  distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
   WITHOUT   ANY   WARRANTY;   without   even  the  implied  warranty  of
   MERCHANTABILITY  or  FITNESS  FOR  A  PARTICULAR  PURPOSE. See the GNU
   General Public License for more details.

   You  should  have  received  a  copy of the GNU General Public License
   along   with  this  program;  if  not,  write  to  the  Free  Software
   Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

News

   Wed Apr 7 2004:

   [10]Version  0.6 released; changes include: backgrounding fixes, minor
   other stuff

   Tue Feb 10 2004:

   [11]Version  0.5  released;  changes  include:  signal  handling  fix,
   forking fix

   Sat Jan 10 2004:

   [12]Version  0.4  released; changes include: new module dexec.c; added
   pkg-config support.

   Mon Oct 20 2003:

   [13]Version 0.3 released; changes include: documentation update, build
   fixes,    RPM    spec    file    added,   added   new   function   int
   daemon_pid_file_kill_wait().

   Thu July 10 2003:

   [14]Version  0.2  released;  changes  include:  ugly  umask error fix,
   documentation update

   Mon July 7 2003:

   [15]Version 0.1 released

Overview

   libdaemon  is  a  lightweight C library that eases the writing of UNIX
   daemons. It consists of the following parts:
     * A  wrapper  around  fork()  which  does  the correct daemonization
       procedure of a process
     * A wrapper around syslog() for simpler and compatible log output to
       Syslog or STDERR
     * An API for writing PID files
     * An  API  for  serializing  UNIX signals into a pipe for usage with
       select() or poll()
     * An  API for running subprocesses with STDOUT and STDERR redirected
       to syslog.

   APIs  like these are used in most daemon software available. It is not
   that simple to get it done right and code duplication is not a goal.

   libdaemon  is  currently  used by [16]ifplugd, [17]waproamd, [18]ivam2
   and [19]aeswepd.

Status

   Version 0.6 is feature complete.

Documentation

   An extensive API reference is [20]available

Requirements

   libdaemon  was developed and tested on Debian GNU/Linux "testing" from
   Jul  2003, it should work on most other Linux distributions (and maybe
   Unix  versions)  since it uses GNU Autoconf and GNU libtool for source
   code configuration and shared library management.

Installation

   As  this  package  is  made  with  the  GNU  autotools  you should run
   ./configure  inside  the  distribution  directory  for configuring the
   source  tree.  After that you should run make for compilation and make
   install (as root) for installation of libdaemon.

Acknowledgements

   No special acknowledgements at this time, I am sorry.

Download

   The newest release is always available from
   [21]http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/

   The current release is [22]0.6

   Get   libdaemon's   development   sources   from   the  [23]Subversion
   [24]repository.

   You  may  find  an  up  to  date  Debian  package  of libdaemon on the
   [25]Debian package repository.

   If  you  want  to be notified whenever I release a new version of this
   software use the subscription feature of [26]Freshmeat.
     _________________________________________________________________


    Lennart Poettering <mzqnrzba (at) 0pointer (dot) de>, April 2004

   $Id: README.html.in 65 2004-04-07 17:41:54Z lennart $

References

   1. README#license
   2. README#news
   3. README#overview
   4. README#status
   5. README#documentation
   6. README#requirements
   7. README#installation
   8. README#acks
   9. README#download
  10. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/libdaemon-0.6.tar.gz
  11. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/libdaemon-0.5.tar.gz
  12. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/libdaemon-0.4.tar.gz
  13. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/libdaemon-0.3.tar.gz
  14. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/libdaemon-0.2.tar.gz
  15. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/libdaemon-0.1.tar.gz
  16. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/ifplugd/
  17. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/waproamd/
  18. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/ivam2/
  19. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/aeswepd/
  20. reference/html/index.html
  21. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/
  22. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/libdaemon-0.6.tar.gz
  23. http://subversion.tigris.org/
  24. https://seth.intheinter.net:8081/svn/libdaemon/
  25. http://packages.debian.org/libdaemon0
  26. http://freshmeat.net/projects/libdaemon/
