[BusyBox] how to automatically start an app at boot time?

Vladimir N. Oleynik dzo at simtreas.ru
Wed Jan 21 10:33:59 UTC 2004


Gyepi,

> Certainly one can use nohup for apps that are meant to continue running when
> the terminal is closed, but nohup cannot replace actual daemonization.

This right for applet support daemonization as internal.
But, nohup special applet for daemonization shell/programm without
daemon() call code.

> I forgot to mention, also, in my earlier response that glibc also has the
> daemon function, inherited from BSD4.4. A reading of the source shows,
> however, that it only closes the three standard file descriptors so the
> calling app would have to handle any others.


--w
vodz




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