NRPE patch: 'stay in foreground' option

[Sundance]

Hello people,

A friend of mine has recently had a bit of a problem with NRPE, where he 
needed it to stay in the foreground rather than fork (for the details, 
he needs to run it through some Daemontools wrapper on a machine where 
he doesn't have root access). I figured the easiest way was to write a 
li'l patch for NRPE itself, which is what I did. Since another friend 
suggested the Nifty Developper Team might actually be interested in it, 
well, here it is for you to peek and poke at.

The patch was made against the nightly CVS tarball and adds a new option 
to NRPE, -f/--foreground.

When used in --daemon mode, this option causes NRPE to not fork, and to 
remain attached to the running process (shell, Daemontools utility, 
etc).

When used in --inetd mode it won't do anything.

There. I did Something Potentially Useful today, yay!

-- Pascal 'Sundance' Varet

PS: I'm sending it to this list as per the FAQ's instructions -- though 
I'm not sure whether it qualifies for an 'extra' such as NRPE (or does 
it count as a plug-in...?). If not, please accept my apologies, and 
feel free to print out this message and play darts on it. Thanks. :)
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