daemon: do not chdir unless daemonizing

As far as most process managers are concerned (e.g. systemd),
they should already start in '/'.  So avoid making our daemon
more complex to run by requiring absolute paths during
development.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Daemon.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Daemon.pm
index 9125584b..795ab822 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Daemon.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Daemon.pm
@@ -102,16 +102,18 @@ sub check_absolute ($$) {
 }
 
 sub daemonize () {
-        foreach my $i (0..$#ARGV) {
-                my $arg = $ARGV[$i];
-                next unless -e $arg;
-                $ARGV[$i] = abs_path($arg);
-        }
-        check_absolute('stdout', $stdout);
-        check_absolute('stderr', $stderr);
-        check_absolute('pid-file', $pid_file);
+        if ($daemonize) {
+                foreach my $i (0..$#ARGV) {
+                        my $arg = $ARGV[$i];
+                        next unless -e $arg;
+                        $ARGV[$i] = abs_path($arg);
+                }
+                check_absolute('stdout', $stdout);
+                check_absolute('stderr', $stderr);
+                check_absolute('pid-file', $pid_file);
 
-        chdir '/' or die "chdir failed: $!";
+                chdir '/' or die "chdir failed: $!";
+        }
 
         return unless (defined $pid_file || defined $group || defined $user
                         || $daemonize);