filewatcherd

commit 783951da990a5b7896e71fa976e57e301f9cfc91
parent a14f8e8ee4c96e0510a9a85dc3b11e661c68c263
Author: Natasha Kerensikova <natacha@instinctive.eu>
Date:   Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:41:08 +0100

Move daemon(3) before kqueue(2)

The file descriptor returned by kqueue(2) is not inherited through
fork(2), which is used by daemon(3). For some unknown reason it
worked anyway in 9.1-RELEASE, which allowed the issue to escape
notice.

Diffstat:
M
filewatcherd.c
 | 
12
++++++------

1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/filewatcherd.c b/filewatcherd.c
@@ -146,6 +146,12 @@ main(int argc, char **argv) {
 		return EXIT_FAILURE;
 	log_watchtab_loaded(tabpath);
 
+	/* Fork to background */
+	if (daemonize) {
+		daemon(0, 0);
+		set_report(&syslog);
+	}
+
 	/* Create a kernel queue */
 	kq = kqueue();
 	if (kq == -1) {
@@ -164,12 +170,6 @@ main(int argc, char **argv) {
 		return EXIT_FAILURE;
 	}
 
-	/* Fork to background */
-	if (daemonize) {
-		daemon(0, 0);
-		set_report(&syslog);
-	}
-
 	/* Insert initial watchers */
 	SLIST_FOREACH(wentry, &wtab, next) {
 		insert_entry(kq, wentry);