OS-specific background service for bitcoind #9005

issue laanwj opened this issue on October 24, 2016

laanwj commented at 9:06 AM on October 24, 2016: member

This issue was triggered by discussion in #8813. Apparently, MacOSX has deprecated daemon() a long time ago with the intent of moving to an OS-specific system for background services. There's a similar case on Windows, where daemon() doesn't exist and never existed.

I'm not 100% sure that this is worth doing as on Windows and MacOSX actual users generally use the GUI, so won't bother with a headless bitcoind at all [for a long time we didn't even distribute a bitcoind binary for MacOSX]. But I suppose there could be a use case for bitcoind as a system background service even there and this would be the issue to refer to.

This could take the form of external scripts/wrappers, similar to that for Linux distributions in contrib/init.
laanwj added the label Windows on Oct 24, 2016
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Sjors commented at 3:34 PM on March 16, 2018: member

I use a bitcoind daemon on macOS 10.13.3. Lightning might encourage more folks to do so. Apple generally releases a new version every autumn (Northern hemisphere), so probably a good idea to keep an eye on announcements so we can fix this just in time worst case.
pinheadmz commented at 6:26 PM on March 8, 2023: member

Was this solved by #21007 ? I think that PR removed daemon() from the codebase. I run macOS 12.3.1 and don't have any issues running with bitcoind -daemon
maflcko commented at 6:57 PM on March 8, 2023: member

Closing for now. Can be reopened if this is still an issue.
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#8813 bitcoind: Daemonize using daemon(3)