Convert receivers to lopsub.

[paraslash.git] / daemon.c

diff --git a/daemon.c b/daemon.c
index 392d2b4e02f654126fe69249390a9caad429dbc5..20cdc6ae605a99f56f35bf41f0abeff7d508936d 100644 (file)
--- a/daemon.c
+++ b/daemon.c
@@ -155,10 +155,6 @@ static bool daemon_test_flag(unsigned flag)
        return me->flags & flag;
 }
 
-static void dummy_sighandler(__a_unused int s)
-{
-}
-
 /**
  * Do the usual stuff to become a daemon.
  *
@@ -166,31 +162,42 @@ static void dummy_sighandler(__a_unused int s)
  *
  * 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];
 
+       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;
@@ -206,7 +213,7 @@ void daemonize(bool parent_waits)
        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);