Bug 6380

Summary:	Support redirection of start-stop-daemon I/O streams
Product:	Busybox	Reporter:	damiano.albani
Component:	Other	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	busybox-cvs, glenn.burkhardt
Priority:	P5
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description damiano.albani 2013-07-11 08:00:40 UTC

start-stop-daemon (s-s-d) currently close stdin/stdout/stderr file descriptors when executing a program.
It would be useful to provide an option in s-s-d to alter that behavior.

Here's a related Debian bug report for their implementation of s-s-d: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=627333

If you search on stackoverflow and others, you'll see that this feature is frequently requested.

Comment 1 Denys Vlasenko 2013-07-14 18:46:40 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> start-stop-daemon (s-s-d) currently close stdin/stdout/stderr file descriptors
> when executing a program.
> It would be useful to provide an option in s-s-d to alter that behavior.
> 
> Here's a related Debian bug report for their implementation of s-s-d:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=627333
> 
> If you search on stackoverflow and others, you'll see that this feature is
> frequently requested.

*Which exactly* feature?

Comment 2 damiano.albani 2013-07-15 09:04:24 UTC

Which feature?
The one that is the subject of this bug report, i.e. to "support redirection of start-stop-daemon I/O streams".
Some reports:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8251933/how-can-i-log-the-stdout-of-a-process-started-by-start-stop-daemon
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16069314/start-stop-daemon-redirect-stderr-from-php-script

Comment 3 Vincent G 2014-09-11 15:11:03 UTC

I submitted a patch for this feature in the bug #7430

Comment 4 Glenn Burkhardt 2021-07-10 15:20:15 UTC

The standard Debian 'start-stop-daemon' supports the "-C, --no-close' option for this.  Implementation is pretty trivial - just don't call bb_daemonize() with DAEMON_DEVNULL_STDIO if the option was given.

Comment 5 Glenn Burkhardt 2021-07-10 15:21:43 UTC

The standard Debian 'start-stop-daemon' supports the "-C, --no-close' option for this.  Implementation is pretty trivial - just don't call bb_daemonize() with DAEMON_DEVNULL_STDIO if the option was given.