Trac issueshttps://gitlab.torproject.org/legacy/trac/-/issues2020-06-13T01:19:17Zhttps://gitlab.torproject.org/legacy/trac/-/issues/5130Allow obfsproxy to daemonize2020-06-13T01:19:17ZTracAllow obfsproxy to daemonizeI've been working on setting up obfsproxy and I ran into a minor issue: It doesn't seem possible to send the obfsproxy process into the background (i.e. daemonize it) if I'm running it as an external server and not in managed mode. If ...I've been working on setting up obfsproxy and I ran into a minor issue: It doesn't seem possible to send the obfsproxy process into the background (i.e. daemonize it) if I'm running it as an external server and not in managed mode. If I want to be able to specify the listening port for a bridge server I don't think there's a way to do this without running obfsproxy as an external server (please correct me if I'm wrong). However, there's no option to fork/detach from the terminal in the case of an external server, which seems a rather significant issue.
I've written a small patch for main.c that seems to correct this problem (see attached). This implements two command line arguments, "--daemonize", which, when specified will just send the program into the background and "--daemonize_with_pid=<pid_file>", which will daemonize and write the process id to the specified file. This patch only works on unix systems, but I've added #ifdef directives that only enable this code if unistd.h is defined, otherwise it will be completely ignored.
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