Blog posts tagged with 'deamon':



PHP's Resources and garbage collection

Date: 10 Jul 2013
Tags: [ deamon ]  [ garbage collection ]  [ PHP ]  [ strace

Today, I’ve found a nice bug/feature/whatsmathing in PHP. I was playing around with writing a daemon and if you have any experience writing daemons (in any language), there are a few rules you have to live by. For instance, setting your effective uid and gid to a non-privileged user (in case you needed to do some privileged initialization, like opening a socket on a tcp port < 1024), setting the process as a group leader with posix_setsid(), and redirecting stdio file descriptions. And here something went wrong which took a while to find and fix..

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