Blog posts tagged with 'strace':
PHP's Resources and garbage collection
Date: 10 Jul 2013Tags: [ deamon ] [ garbage collection ] [ PHP ] [ strace ]
Today, I’ve found a nice bug/feature/whatsmathing in PHP. I was playing around with writing a daemon and if you have any experience writing daemons (in any language), there are a few rules you have to live by. For instance, setting your effective uid and gid to a non-privileged user (in case you needed to do some privileged initialization, like opening a socket on a tcp port < 1024), setting the process as a group leader with posix_setsid(), and redirecting stdio file descriptions. And here something went wrong which took a while to find and fix..