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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have a simple app that I tried to convert to run as a daemon.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">This is on Solaris and when i do the fork() I get the following error from the event_dispatch()</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> ioctl: DP_POLL: Permission denied</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">event_dispatch received an error of -1</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I'm wondering if anyone has seen this before or has working daemon code that they would be willing to share..</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I've tried the following</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">if( fork() ) {</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> exit(0);</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">}</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">setsid();</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">if( fork() ) {</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> exit(0);</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">}</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">then do the rest of the code....</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">the 2 forks are recommended in all of the popular texts (i.e. Stevens )...</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">thanks for any help,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">bobm</FONT>
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