]> > I am coding in Ocaml a daemon program (the Poesia monitor - see > http://www.poesia-filter.org/) which happens to launch daemon > subprocesses, i.e. it fork and execs processes which do not use their > stdin stdout and stderr. Basically I would need something like a > Unix.process_none which forks a command without any stdin stdout and > stderr (which are technically redirected to /dev/null). This can easily be written in terms of Unix.fork and Unix.exec; you can use the sources for the Unix.process_* functions as a starting point. > Also, Unix.open_process_in and related seems to forget closing the > file descriptors in the child process, as this example (running only > on Linux) demonstrates: This is standard Unix behavior: file descriptors are preserved across "exec", unless they were set to "close on exec" mode before the exec (see Unix.set_close_on_exec). - Xavier Leroy ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners