
                                 libdaemon 0.3

   Copyright 2003 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

   Mon Oct 20 2003:

   [10]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:

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

   Mon July 7 2003:

   [12]Version 0.1 released

Overview

   libdaemon is a lightweight C library which 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()

   Routines like these are included in most of the daemon software
   available. It is not that simple to get it done right and code
   duplication cannot be a goal.

   libdaemon is currently used by [13]ifplugd, [14]waproamd and
   [15]aeswepd.

Status

   Version 0.3 is feature complete.

Documentation

   An extensive API reference is [16]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
   [17]http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/

   The current release is [18]0.3

   Get libdaemon's development sources from the [19]Subversion
   [20]repository.
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    Lennart Poettering <mzqnrzba (at) 0pointer (dot) de>, October 2003

   $Id: README.html.in 43 2003-10-20 22:13:53Z 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-0.3.tar.gz
  11. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/libdaemon-0.2.tar.gz
  12. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/libdaemon-0.1.tar.gz
  13. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/ifplugd/
  14. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/waproamd/
  15. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/aeswepd/
  16. reference/html/index.html
  17. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/
  18. http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/libdaemon-0.3.tar.gz
  19. http://subversion.tigris.org/
  20. https://seth.intheinter.net:8081/svn/libdaemon/
