Difference between revisions of "Daemonise.c"

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if ((pid = fork()) < 0) {
 
if ((pid = fork()) < 0) {
 
syslog(LOG_ERR, "fork: %m");
 
syslog(LOG_ERR, "fork: %m");
shutdown(evListen->h, 2);
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//shutdown(evListen->h, 2); ???
 
return errno;
 
return errno;
 
} else if (pid) return 0;
 
} else if (pid) return 0;

Revision as of 04:01, 21 July 2006

// Convert running program into a system daemon pid_t pid; int hNull;

if ((pid = fork()) < 0) { syslog(LOG_ERR, "fork: %m"); //shutdown(evListen->h, 2); ??? return errno; } else if (pid) return 0;

close(STDIN_FILENO); close(STDOUT_FILENO); close(STDERR_FILENO);

hNull = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR); dup2(hNull, STDIN_FILENO); dup2(hNull, STDOUT_FILENO); dup2(hNull, STDERR_FILENO);

if (hNull > STDERR_FILENO) close(hNull);

setsid();