-/*
- * Copyright (C) 1997 Andre Noll <maan@tuebingen.mpg.de>
- *
- * Licensed under the GPL v2. For licencing details see COPYING.
- */
+/* Copyright (C) 1997 Andre Noll <maan@tuebingen.mpg.de>, see file COPYING. */
/** \file daemon.c Some helpers for programs that detach from the console. */
char *hostname;
/** Used for colored log messages. */
char log_colors[NUM_LOGLEVELS][COLOR_MAXLEN];
+ char *old_cwd;
+ /*
+ * If these pointers are non-NULL, the functions are called from
+ * daemon_log() before and after writing each log message.
+ */
+ void (*pre_log_hook)(void);
+ void (*post_log_hook)(void);
};
static struct daemon the_daemon, *me = &the_daemon;
}
/**
- * Set the color for one loglevel.
+ * Set the color for log messages of the given severity level.
*
- * \param arg Must be of the form "ll:[fg [bg]] [attr]".
+ * \param arg Must be of the form "severity:[fg [bg]] [attr]".
*/
void daemon_set_log_color_or_die(const char *arg)
{
+ unsigned ll;
+ const char * const sev[] = {SEVERITIES};
char *p = strchr(arg, ':');
- int ret, ll;
if (!p)
goto err;
- ret = get_loglevel_by_name(arg);
- if (ret < 0)
- goto err;
- ll = ret;
- p++;
- color_parse_or_die(p, me->log_colors[ll]);
- return;
+ for (ll = 0; ll < NUM_LOGLEVELS; ll++) {
+ const char *name = sev[ll];
+ /*
+ * Parse only the first part of the string so that, for
+ * example, the argument "info:something_else" is recognized.
+ * Note that the string comparison is performed
+ * case-insensitively.
+ */
+ if (strncasecmp(arg, name, strlen(name)))
+ continue;
+ return color_parse_or_die(p + 1, me->log_colors[ll]);
+ }
err:
PARA_EMERG_LOG("%s: invalid color argument\n", arg);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
{
free(me->logfile_name);
me->logfile_name = NULL;
- if (logfile_name)
+ if (!logfile_name)
+ return;
+ if (me->old_cwd && logfile_name[0] != '/')
+ me->logfile_name = make_message("%s/%s", me->old_cwd,
+ logfile_name);
+ else
me->logfile_name = para_strdup(logfile_name);
}
/**
- * Suppress log messages with severity lower than the given loglevel.
+ * Control the verbosity for logging.
+ *
+ * This instructs the daemon to not log subsequent messages whose severity is
+ * lower than the given value.
+ *
+ * \param loglevel The new log level.
+ */
+void daemon_set_loglevel(int loglevel)
+{
+ assert(loglevel >= 0);
+ assert(loglevel < NUM_LOGLEVELS);
+ me->loglevel = loglevel;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Get the current log level of the daemon.
*
- * \param loglevel The smallest level that should be logged.
+ * \return Greater or equal than zero and less than NUM_LOGLEVELS. This
+ * function never fails.
*/
-void daemon_set_loglevel(const char *loglevel)
+int daemon_get_loglevel(void)
{
- int ret = get_loglevel_by_name(loglevel);
+ return me->loglevel;
+}
- assert(ret >= 0);
- me->loglevel = ret;
+/**
+ * Register functions to be called before and after a message is logged.
+ *
+ * \param pre_log_hook Called before the message is logged.
+ * \param post_log_hook Called after the message is logged.
+ *
+ * The purpose of this function is to provide a primitive for multi-threaded
+ * applications to serialize the access to the log facility, preventing
+ * interleaving log messages. This can be achieved by having the pre-log hook
+ * acquire a lock which blocks the other threads on the attempt to log a
+ * message at the same time. The post-log hook is responsible for releasing
+ * the lock.
+ *
+ * If these hooks are unnecessary, for example because the application is
+ * single-threaded, this function does not need to be called.
+ */
+void daemon_set_hooks(void (*pre_log_hook)(void), void (*post_log_hook)(void))
+{
+ me->pre_log_hook = pre_log_hook;
+ me->post_log_hook = post_log_hook;
}
/**
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;
+ me->old_cwd = getcwd(NULL, 0);
if (chdir("/") < 0)
goto err;
null = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR);
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);
}
/**
- * fopen() the logfile in append mode.
+ * Open the logfile in append mode.
*
- * \return Either succeeds or exits.
+ * This function either succeeds or exits.
*/
void daemon_open_log_or_die(void)
{
- daemon_close_log();
+ FILE *new_log;
+
if (!me->logfile_name)
return;
- me->logfile = fopen(me->logfile_name, "a");
- if (!me->logfile) {
+ new_log = fopen(me->logfile_name, "a");
+ if (!new_log) {
PARA_EMERG_LOG("can not open %s: %s\n", me->logfile_name,
strerror(errno));
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
+ daemon_close_log();
+ me->logfile = new_log;
/* equivalent to setlinebuf(), but portable */
setvbuf(me->logfile, NULL, _IOLBF, 0);
}
* \param current_time See a \ref daemon_get_uptime().
*
* \return A dynamically allocated string of the form "days:hours:minutes".
- *
- * \sa server_uptime.
*/
__malloc char *daemon_get_uptime_str(const struct timeval *current_time)
{
return;
fp = me->logfile? me->logfile : stderr;
+ if (me->pre_log_hook)
+ me->pre_log_hook();
color = daemon_test_flag(DF_COLOR_LOG)? me->log_colors[ll] : NULL;
if (color)
fprintf(fp, "%s", color);
va_end(argp);
if (color)
fprintf(fp, "%s", COLOR_RESET);
+ if (me->post_log_hook)
+ me->post_log_hook();
}