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		kazinator on June 28, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You don't need to daemonize You can run a daemon-like process with its stdin/out firmly attached to a TTY: a virtual TTY inside a screen or tmux session that can be detached and reattached.

Animats on June 28, 2015 [–]

As was pointed out a few days ago, if the output stream exerts backpressure, write calls will stall. Stopping scrolling at the output end is enough to do that.

__david__ on June 28, 2015 | [–]

But that's the whole point of screen and tmux—It's always got a terminal to suck up stdout.

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