How to fork a process

Question

I need help understanding how to demonize a process in Go.

package main

import (
   \"fmt\"
   \"os\"
)

func start() {
   var procAttr os.ProcAttr 
   proc         


        

Answer 1

AFAIK Go doesn't yet fully support writing true daemons in Go. Some of the previous discussions about this topic:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/golang-nuts/KynZO5BQGks/discussion

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/golang-nuts/1bF39FuX-48/discussion

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/golang-nuts/0P_kErKUCEU/discussion

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/golang-nuts/BSvqvyOqX-I/discussion

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/golang-nuts/H6d-3UfAa1A/discussion

Answer 2

I asked in 'golang-nuts', and found out that golang has a link option:

go tool 8l -o output.exe -Hwindowsgui input.8

Answer 3

Here is a fake daemon in go; it's simple to use: https://github.com/icattlecoder/godaemon

An example:

package main

import (
    _ "github.com/icattlecoder/godaemon"
    "log"
    "net/http"
)

func main() {
    mux := http.NewServeMux()
    mux.HandleFunc("/index", func(rw http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
        rw.Write([]byte("hello, golang!\n"))
    })
    log.Fatalln(http.ListenAndServe(":7070", mux))
}