view dcclib/daemon.c @ 4:d329bb5c36d0

Changes making it compile the new upstream release
author Peter Gervai <grin@grin.hu>
date Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:57:12 +0100
parents c7f6b056b673
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/* compatibility hack for old systems lacking daemon() */

#include "dcc_config.h"
#include "dcc_paths.h"

#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <fcntl.h>

int
dcc_daemon(int nochdir, int noclose)
{
	int retv;

	if (!nochdir) {
		if (chdir("/") == -1)
			perror("chdir /");
	}
	retv = fork();
	if (retv == -1)
		return -1;		/* fork() failed */

	if (retv != 0)
		_exit(0);		/* parent of new child */

	/* fork again after setsid() so that the PID is not the session
	 * group leader so that opening a tty device won't make a
	 * controlling terminal. */
	setsid();
	retv = fork();
	if (retv == -1) {
		perror("fork");		/* second fork() failed */
		exit(1);		/* cannot tell caller */
	}
	if (retv != 0)
		_exit(0);		/* parent of final child */

	if (!noclose) {
		close(0);
		close(1);
		close(2);
		open(_PATH_DEVNULL, O_RDWR, 0666);
		dup2(0, 1);
		dup2(0, 2);
	}
	return 0;
}