[dm-devel] improved daemon setup

[Christophe Varoqui]

On mer, 2005-11-09 at 16:00 -0600, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> If you log into a machine and start the multipathd daemon, you will hang on
> logout, because multipathd doesn't fully detach itself from the calling
> processes. Also, occasionally the device mapper library functions will print
> error messages to stdout.  These appear in the terminal that was used to
> start multipathd, if it was started by hand (not by init scripts).  To fix these
> I added some code to fully daemonize multipathd, and redirect stdout and
> stderr to /dev/console.
> --
Thanks, applied.

BTW, Ed has to add a EMC copyright notice in multipathd/main.c
So I seeded the header with my copyright.
You can send a patch adding yours or Redhat's too ...

Regards,
cvaroqui