/* daemon.c - implementation of daemon() for systems that lack it Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2008 Arthur de Jong This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This library 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 Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA */ #include "daemon.h" #include #include #include #include int daemon(int nochdir,int noclose) { /* change directory */ if (!nochdir) if (chdir("/")!=0) return -1; /* fork() and exit() to detach from the parent process */ switch (fork()) { case 0: /* we are the child */ break; case -1: /* we are the parent, but have an error */ return -1; default: /* we are the parent and we're done*/ _exit(0); } /* become process leader */ if (setsid()<0) { return -1; } /* fork again so we cannot allocate a pty */ switch (fork()) { case 0: /* we are the child */ break; case -1: /* we are the parent, but have an error */ return -1; default: /* we are the parent and we're done*/ _exit(0); } /* close stdin, stdout and stderr and reconnect to /dev/null */ if (!noclose) { close(0); /* stdin */ close(1); /* stdout */ close(2); /* stderr */ open("/dev/null",O_RDWR); /* stdin, fd=0 */ dup(0); /* stdout, fd=1 */ dup(0); /* stderr, fd=2 */ } return 0; }