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[tor-bugs] #5130 [Obfsproxy]: Allow obfsproxy to daemonize
#5130: Allow obfsproxy to daemonize
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Reporter: ericpaulbishop | Owner: asn
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: Obfsproxy | Version:
Keywords: obfsproxy daemon | Parent:
Points: | Actualpoints:
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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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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5130>
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