[Toybox] [toybox] Add nbd-client. (8525d78)

[Rob Landley]

On 07/18/14 13:45, Isaac Dunham wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 08:24:07AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
>>
>> On 07/17/14 08:12, Rob Landley wrote:> On 07/17/14 00:58, technosaurus wrote:
>>>> I think this is the same as daemonize() in toybox/lib. Should daemonize
>>>> just be defined to daemon(0,0) or is there a reason for it?
>>>
>>> daemon() isn't posix, so I have to figure out if it's best to
>>> reimplement it for portability, or just stick with the libc function we
>>> inherited from BSD and wait for the standard to catch up. In the
>>> meantime, it's in lib/pending.c for the same reason toys/pending exists,
>>> as toys/pending/README says this stuff needs further review.
>>>
> daemon() was removed for SUSv2; glibc makes it available if
> _XOPEN_SOURCE < 500 or if _BSD_SOURCE is defined (which includes the default).
> 
> Recent OS X versions (>10.5) mark daemon() as deprecated, and use of it there
> may cause an FTBFS. Everywhere else (at least on Linux and *BSD), daemon()
> is supported and widely used.
> 
> glibc, musl, klibc, bionic, presumably olibc: standard;
> uclibc, newlib?: optional;
> dietlibc: in -lcompat
> 
> So if we're still targetting "Linux, and maybe eventually BSD," use daemon().

Done. :)

Thanks,

Rob