Re: how do I daemonize a lua process on unix ?

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

On 8-Feb-07, at 8:23 PM, gary ng wrote:

> The way I know of doing it is to double fork then dup2
> the stdin/stdout/stderr handles.
>
> I can find fork() in the posix package but don't know
> how to dup2 and/or get the fileno() of io.stdin etc.
>
> Or I need some other helper say using python to
> daemonize then spawn the lua script ?

I personally find djb's daemontools quite easy to use for applications 
like that. See http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

If you want to do tcp servers, see tcpserver and tcpclient here: 
http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html