[Libguestfs] [PATCH] daemon/Win32: Windows can't daemonize.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

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>From bf61343531ab607551676c548d18fee46f702a15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:59:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 6/7] daemon/Win32: Windows can't daemonize.

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 daemon/guestfsd.c |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/daemon/guestfsd.c b/daemon/guestfsd.c
index 40b3c2f..d3b754d 100644
--- a/daemon/guestfsd.c
+++ b/daemon/guestfsd.c
@@ -335,10 +335,15 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
 
   /* Fork into the background. */
   if (!dont_fork) {
+#ifndef WIN32
     if (daemon (0, 1) == -1) {
       perror ("daemon");
       exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
     }
+#else /* WIN32 */
+    fprintf (stderr, "On Windows the daemon does not support forking into the background.\nYou *must* run the daemon with the -f option.\n");
+    exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
+#endif /* WIN32 */
   }
 
   /* Enter the main loop, reading and performing actions. */
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