return me->flags & flag;
}
-static void dummy_sighandler(__a_unused int s)
-{
-}
-
/**
* Do the usual stuff to become a daemon.
*
*
* Fork, become session leader, cd to /, and dup fd 0, 1, 2 to /dev/null. If \a
* parent_waits is false, the parent process terminates immediately.
- * Otherwise, it calls pause() to sleep until it receives \p SIGTERM or \p
- * SIGCHLD and exits successfully thereafter. This behaviour is useful if the
- * daemon process should not detach from the console until the child process
- * has completed its setup.
+ * Otherwise, a pipe is created prior to the fork() and the parent tries to
+ * read a single byte from the reading end of the pipe. The child is supposed
+ * to write to the writing end of the pipe after it completed its setup
+ * procedure successfully. This behaviour is useful to let the parent process
+ * die with an error if the child process aborts early, since in this case the
+ * read() will return non-positive.
+ *
+ * \return This function either succeeds or calls exit(3). If parent_waits is
+ * true, the return value is the file descriptor of the writing end of the
+ * pipe. Otherwise the function returns zero.
*
* \sa fork(2), setsid(2), dup(2), pause(2).
*/
-void daemonize(bool parent_waits)
+int daemonize(bool parent_waits)
{
pid_t pid;
- int null;
+ int null, pipe_fd[2];
- PARA_INFO_LOG("daemonizing\n");
+ if (parent_waits && pipe(pipe_fd) < 0)
+ goto err;
+ PARA_INFO_LOG("subsequent log messages go to %s\n", me->logfile_name?
+ me->logfile_name : "/dev/null");
pid = fork();
if (pid < 0)
goto err;
- if (pid) {
+ if (pid) { /* parent exits */
if (parent_waits) {
- signal(SIGTERM, dummy_sighandler);
- signal(SIGCHLD, dummy_sighandler);
- pause();
+ char c;
+ close(pipe_fd[1]);
+ exit(read(pipe_fd[0], &c, 1) <= 0?
+ EXIT_FAILURE : EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
- exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); /* parent exits */
+ exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
+ if (parent_waits)
+ close(pipe_fd[0]);
/* become session leader */
if (setsid() < 0)
goto err;
if (dup2(null, STDERR_FILENO) < 0)
goto err;
close(null);
- return;
+ return parent_waits? pipe_fd[1] : 0;
err:
PARA_EMERG_LOG("fatal: %s\n", strerror(errno));
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);