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To see something, you might add a loop

Jocelyn Fiat — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:06:00 -0800

To see something, I would just add the following points:

1) add THREAD_CONTROL to the inherited class for SAMPLE 2) at the end of make, you could add (for instance)

from until False loop
    print (".")
    sleep (1_000_000_000)
end

Eiffel and Unix

mtn — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:40:24 -0700

I personally would be interested to know how to setup signal handlers in Eiffel.

That's basically not that

patrickr — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:33:05 -0700

That's basically not that hard. In general on Unix/Linux, the way it is done is to let the process fork itself and then end the parent process. As soon as the parent process exits, the child process is automatically inherited by the init process and can therefore be considered a daemon. In Eiffel probably the easiest way to do it, is to use eposix. Another aspect that should also be done is to implement some signal handlers (e.g. for the TERM signal, to be able to shut down a daemon), I also did this using eposix. If there's interest I can write a quick article about it.

How do you turn your processes into daemons?

mtn — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:21:43 -0700

Would be interesting to know.