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<h1> The s6-fghack program </h1>
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s6-fghack is an anti-backgrounding tool.
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<h2> Interface </h2>
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s6-fghack <em>prog...</em>
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<li> s6-fghack opens a lot of file descriptors (all writing to a single pipe). </li>
<li> Then it forks and executes <em>prog...</em>. </li>
<li> If something gets written on one of those descriptors, it's a bug in <em>prog</em>.
s6-fghack then complains and exits 102. </li>
<li> Unless <em>prog...</em> goes out of its way to close descriptors it does not know about,
s6-fghack is able to detect when <em>prog...</em> exits. It exits with the same exit
code (or 111 if <em>prog...</em> has crashed). </li>
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<h2> Notes </h2>
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s6-fghack is what it says: a hack. Ideally, you should never have to use it.
It is only useful when you want to supervise a daemon that does not provide a
"stay in the foreground" option; and even then, the right thing is to report
this as a bug to the daemon author and have it fixed.
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