From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Craven Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] services: Add spice vdagent service. Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2016 12:29:34 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20160729082357.17501-1-david@craven.ch> <20160729082357.17501-8-david@craven.ch> <87r3acxnj9.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43233) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bTRWY-0000Gx-Kd for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2016 06:29:43 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bTRWU-0007xZ-D9 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2016 06:29:41 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-x243.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c05::243]:34081) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bTRWT-0007xB-6e for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2016 06:29:38 -0400 Received: by mail-yw0-x243.google.com with SMTP id j12so9830237ywb.1 for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2016 03:29:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel > If spice-vdagend produces a PID file, make sure to use #:pid-file here > (there are several examples in the tree), which often provides more > reliable startup notification. I'm passing the -x flag which prevents spice-vdagentd from daemonizing. I thought that make-forkexec-constructor took care of setting the correct stdout stderr stdin user process-parent and pid file automatically. Is that not the way it's intended to be used? Because otherwise a (system*) call would be enough wouldn't it?