Re: [libmicrohttpd] Runnking MHD_deamon for infinite amount of time

[Sebastian Gerhardt]

Hello,

you could have the parent threat wait for a signal, for
example SIGHUP. See the manual for GNU libc, "waiting for a signal".



On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 12:17 +0530, arnuld uttre wrote:
> I am working with libmicrohttpd and I have looked at the
> minimal_example.c  which uses this model:
> 
> d = MHD_start_daemon (MHD_USE_THREAD_PER_CONNECTION | MHD_USE_DEBUG,
>                         atoi (argv[1]),
>                         NULL, NULL, &ahc_echo, PAGE, MHD_OPTION_END);
>   if (d == NULL)
>     return 1;
>   sleep (atoi (argv[2]));
>   MHD_stop_daemon (d);
> 
> 
> 
> I want to tun MHD_deamon continuously just like httpd server keeps on
> listening for infinite amount of time, no matter whether some browser
> sends it the request or not, which is what a daemon does, keep on
> runnig nt he background forever. I have 2 options:
> 
>  1) don't use sleep() and don't use MHD_stop_daemon() . In that case
> MHD_daemon stops after 1 second.
> 
>  2) Pass the UINT_MAX . It will expire after some specific time
> 
> 
> Is there anyway that using select initernally can I keep on running
> the daemon for infinite amount of time ?
> 
> 
>