Hello !

I'm new on this list and perhaps have missed info what I'm looking for... forgive me . I upgraded to latest fpc (1.0). I think I had previously something 0.99-?(abt year old or so).

Then I returned to daemon.pp that is introduced on UNITS section of
fpc-homepages. Previously I managed to compile daemon.pp and also made
some programs of my own using this source as base. Now I found out that I
cant use (compile) them any more with new version of fpc.  First problem
in daemon.pp was:
  new(aHup);
  new(aTerm);
    aTerm^.sa_handler := @DoSig;  <-------------here
    aTerm^.sa_mask := 0;
    aTerm^.sa_flags := 0;
    aTerm^.sa_restorer := nil;
    aHup^.sa_handler := @DoSig;  <-------------and here
    aHup^.sa_mask := 0;

After some thinking and manual reading :-O I replaced "aTerm^.sa_handler" as "aTerm^.handler.sh" and passed all without erros in compile.

How ever, running program will not work. It gives runtime error 2. I have pinpointed erro to:

  Case pid of
       0 : Begin { we are in the child }
          Close(input);  { close standard in }
          Close(output); { close standard out }
          Assign(output,'/dev/null');
          ReWrite(output);  <--------- HERE
          Close(stderr); { close standard error }
          Assign(stderr,'/dev/null');
          ReWrite(stderr);  <----------AND HERE
 Now I just do not have any more ideas !
 I tested also with: program test; uses Linux; var ofile : text;  Begin
       Assign ofile,´/dev/null');
       rewrite(ofile);
       close(ofile);
 end.

Compiles OK, but ends also to runtime error 2 !

Any ideas ? Something has changed between fpc versions but I can not dig it
out from manuals or homepage ! (I guess it's there, I just can't see it ;-( )

Please help !
Saku

sa_handler is correct. Unfortunately 1.00 had an error in the linux unit. You will need to download a snapshot to fix this problem.

Ken

I was a bit mistaken in my first reply. Here's the original bug report.

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Ken