Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] Darwin: Fix compilation warning regarding the deprecated daemon() function

[Alexandre Raymond]

Hi Andreas,

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Andreas Färber <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am 02.06.2011 um 04:45 schrieb Alexandre Raymond:
>
>> On OSX > 10.5, daemon() is deprecated, resulting int he following warning:
>
>>= 10.5
>
> http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man3/daemon.3.html
>
>> ----8<----
>> qemu-nbd.c: In function ‘main’:
>> qemu-nbd.c:371: warning: ‘daemon’ is deprecated (declared at
>> /usr/include/stdlib.h:289)
>> ----8<----
>>
>> The following trick, used in mDNSResponder, takes care of this warning:
>>
>> http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/mDNSResponder/mDNSResponder-258.18/mDNSPosix/PosixDaemon.c
>
> Even if apparently applied by Apple themselves, I consider it a bad hack for
> curing symptoms.
>
> http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/technotes/tn2083/_index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS10003794-CH1-SUBSECTION64

I agree that this is a nasty hack. It's really up to you guys. I can
try to modify this patch to use launchd instead.

Alexandre