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Author: des
Date: 2006-10-18 16:27:10 +0200 (Wed, 18 Oct 2006)
New Revision: 1180

Modified:
branches/1.0/
branches/1.0/bin/varnishd/varnishd.1
Log:
r32842 at cat (orig r1141): des | 2006-10-06 13:04:01 +0200
Clarify the semantics of -d and -dd.



Property changes on: branches/1.0
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Name: svk:merge
- d4fa192b-c00b-0410-8231-f00ffab90ce4:/trunk/varnish-cache:1140
+ d4fa192b-c00b-0410-8231-f00ffab90ce4:/trunk/varnish-cache:1141

Modified: branches/1.0/bin/varnishd/varnishd.1
===================================================================
--- branches/1.0/bin/varnishd/varnishd.1 2006-10-18 14:27:09 UTC (rev 1179)
+++ branches/1.0/bin/varnishd/varnishd.1 2006-10-18 14:27:10 UTC (rev 1180)
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\"
.\" $Id$
.\"
-.Dd September 26, 2006
+.Dd October 6, 2006
.Dt VARNISHD 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -84,6 +84,25 @@
is not specified, the default is 8080.
.It Fl d
Enables debugging mode.
+This causes
+.Nm
+to fork; the child process daemonizes and runs as usual, while the
+parent process remains attached to the console and will accept
+management commands from
+.Dv stdin .
+If the parent process receives
+.Dv EOF ,
+it will terminate, but the child process will continue to run.
+.Pp
+The child process will not start accepting client connections until
+the
+.Cm start
+command is given.
+.Pp
+If the
+.Fl d
+flag is specified twice, the child process will not daemonize, and
+terminating the parent process will also terminate the child.
.It Fl f Ar config
Use the specified VCL configuration file instead of the builtin
default.