/* daemon.c -- replacement daemon() for platforms that do not have it Copyright (C) 2000 Ivo Timmermans , 2000 Guus Sliepen This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. $Id: daemon.c,v 1.1.2.1 2000/11/24 23:30:50 guus Exp $ */ #include "config.h" #include #include #include #include #include #include #ifndef HAVE_DAEMON int daemon(int nochdir, int noclose) { pid_t pid; int fd; pid = fork(); /* Check if forking failed */ if(pid < 0) { perror("fork"); exit(-1); } /* If we are the parent, terminate */ if(pid) exit(0); /* Detach by becoming the new process group leader */ if(setsid() < 0) { perror("setsid"); return -1; } /* Change working directory to the root (to avoid keeping mount points busy) */ if(!nochdir) { chdir("/"); } /* Redirect stdin/out/err to /dev/null */ if(!noclose) { fd = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR); if(fd < 0) { perror("opening /dev/null"); return -1; } else { dup2(fd, 0); dup2(fd, 1); dup2(fd, 2); } } } #endif