Chdir and Netcam-wget Patches

Posted by KennethLavrsen based on emails from ChristopheGRENIER

Introduction

Two patches from mailing list

chdir

Please a little patch that change the working directory to / in daemon mode. This way you don't have to kill motion to umount the partition from where you start it.

--- motion.org.c        2005-03-26 20:12:34.000000000 +0100
+++ motion.c    2005-05-04 14:49:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -1080,6 +1080,8 @@
                        exit(0);
                }

+               chdir("/");
+
                signal(SIGQUIT, sig_handler);

 #ifdef __freebsd__

Implemented in Motion sources!

netcam-wget

header_get() doesn't always in add a \0 string terminator. Christophe posted the attached little patch to solve this problem.

Change History of Patch

• Initial version

Discussion and Comments

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Both are included in the main sources and will be in the 3.2.1 release.

-- KennethLavrsen - 21 May 2005

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would 'target_dir' be a better place?

-- EvilPete - 08 Jun 2005

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