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

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 06:47:42PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> How about defining a daemon function above,
> 
> #ifdef WIN32
> static inline int
> daemon (...)
> {
>   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 */
> 
> Then you don't need any of those ugly in-function #ifdefs.
> Bonus: no lines longer than 80 columns ;-)

Thanks - I'm going to push something along these lines.

Rich.

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