Daemonise.c

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

if ((pid = fork()) < 0) { logAdd("fork()"); //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();

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