Method Process.daemon()
- Method daemon
void daemon(int nochdir, int noclose, void|mapping(string:string|Stdio.File) modifiers)
- Description
A function to run current program in the background.
- Parameter nochdir
If 0 the process will continue to run in / or the directory dictadet by modifiers.
- Parameter noclose
If this is not 0 the process will keep current file descriptors open.
- Parameter modifiers
Optional extra arguments. The parameters passed in this mapping will override the arguments nochdir and noclose.
"cwd" : string Change current working directory to this directory.
"stdin" : string|Stdio.File If this is a string this will be interpreted as a filename pointing out a file to be used as stdandard input to the process. If this is a Stdio.File object the process will use this as standard input.
"stdout" : string|Stdio.File If this is a string this will be interpreted as a filename pointing out a file to be used as stdandard output to the process. If this is a Stdio.File object the process will use this as standard output.
"stderr" : string|Stdio.File If this is a string this will be interpreted as a filename pointing out a file to be used as stdandard error to the process. If this is a Stdio.File object the process will use this as standard error.
- See also
- Note
This function only works on UNIX-like operating systems.
- Example
/* close all fd:s and cd to '/' */ Process.daemon(0, 0);
/* Do not change working directory. Write stdout to a file called access.log and stderr to error.log. */ Process.daemon(1, 0, ([ "stdout": "access.log", "stderr": "error.log" ]) );