X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=lib%2Fdaemon.man;h=ea0561dafd36b0553ecbdcd7fe9b982e371a1462;hb=6d65eee8b1f4d96b9c925d3b31758268345a4636;hp=4ab65680680a449f54fb2db7cbe798aa4c0a9292;hpb=064af42167bf4fc9aaea2702d80ce08074b889c0;p=openvswitch diff --git a/lib/daemon.man b/lib/daemon.man index 4ab65680..ea0561da 100644 --- a/lib/daemon.man +++ b/lib/daemon.man @@ -1,21 +1,36 @@ .TP -\fB-P\fR[\fIpidfile\fR], \fB--pidfile\fR[\fB=\fIpidfile\fR] +\fB--pidfile\fR[\fB=\fIpidfile\fR] Causes a file (by default, \fB\*(PN.pid\fR) to be created indicating the PID of the running process. If \fIpidfile\fR is not specified, or if it does not begin with \fB/\fR, then it is created in \fB@RUNDIR@\fR. .TP -\fB-f\fR, \fB--force\fR -By default, when \fB-P\fR or \fB--pidfile\fR is specified and the -specified pidfile already exists and is locked by a running process, -\fB\*(PN\fR refuses to start. Specify \fB-f\fR or \fB--force\fR -to cause it to instead overwrite the pidfile. +\fB--overwrite-pidfile\fR +By default, when \fB--pidfile\fR is specified and the specified pidfile +already exists and is locked by a running process, \fB\*(PN\fR refuses +to start. Specify \fB--overwrite-pidfile\fR to cause it to instead +overwrite the pidfile. -When \fB-P\fR or \fB--pidfile\fR is not specified, this option has no -effect. +When \fB--pidfile\fR is not specified, this option has no effect. .TP -\fB-D\fR, \fB--detach\fR +\fB--detach\fR Causes \fB\*(PN\fR to detach itself from the foreground session and run as a background process. + +.TP +\fB--no-chdir\fR +By default, when \fB--detach\fR is specified, \fB\*(PN\fR +changes its current working directory to the root directory after it +detaches. Otherwise, invoking \fB\*(PN\fR from a carelessly chosen +directory would prevent the administrator from unmounting the file +system that holds that directory. +.IP +Specifying \fB--no-chdir\fR suppresses this behavior, preventing +\fB\*(PN\fR from changing its current working directory. This may be +useful for collecting core files, since it is common behavior to write +core dumps into the current working directory and the root directory +is not a good directory to use. +.IP +This option has no effect when \fB--detach\fR is not specified.