/* Copyright 1993-95 by Carl Harris, Jr. * All rights reserved * * Distribute freely, except: don't remove my name from the source or * documentation (don't take credit for my work), mark your changes (don't * get me blamed for your possible bugs), don't alter or remove this * notice. May be sold if buildable source is provided to buyer. No * warrantee of any kind, express or implied, is included with this * software; use at your own risk, responsibility for damages (if any) to * anyone resulting from the use of this software rests entirely with the * user. * * Send bug reports, bug fixes, enhancements, requests, flames, etc., and * I'll try to keep a version up to date. I can be reached as follows: * Carl Harris */ /*********************************************************************** module: daemon project: popclient programmer: Carl Harris, ceharris@mal.com description: This module contains all of the code needed to turn a process into a daemon for POSIX, SysV, and BSD systems. $Log: daemon.c,v $ Revision 1.2 1996/06/26 19:08:57 esr This is what I sent Harris. Revision 1.1 1996/06/25 14:32:01 esr Initial revision Revision 1.1 1995/08/14 18:36:38 ceharris Patches to support POP3's LAST command. Final revisions for beta3 release. ***********************************************************************/ #include #include #include #include #include #include #if defined(HAVE_SYS_WAIT_H) # include #endif #if defined(HAVE_UNISTD_H) # include #endif #include "popclient.h" /****************************************************************** function: sigchld_handler description: Process the SIGCHLD (a.k.a SIGCLD) signal by calling a wait() variant to obtain the exit code of the terminating process. arguments: none. ret. value: none (or undefined if REGSIGTYPE is int). globals: none. calls: none. *****************************************************************/ RETSIGTYPE sigchld_handler () { pid_t pid; #if defined(HAVE_UNION_WAIT) union wait status; #else int status; #endif #if defined(HAVE_WAIT3) while ((pid = wait3(&status, WNOHANG, (struct rusage *) 0)) > 0) ; /* swallow 'em up. */ #elif defined(HAVE_WAITPID) while ((pid = waitpid(-1, &status, WNOHANG)) > 0) ; /* swallow 'em up. */ #else /* Zooks! Nothing to do but wait(), and hope we don't block... */ wait(&status); #endif } /****************************************************************** function: daemonize description: become a daemon process; i.e. detach from the control terminal, don't reacquire a control terminal, become process group leader of our own process group, and set up to catch child process termination signals. arguments: logfile file to direct stdout and stderr to, if non-NULL. ret. value: none. globals: refers to the address of sigchld_handler(). calls: none. *****************************************************************/ int daemonize (logfile) const char *logfile; { int fd; pid_t childpid; RETSIGTYPE sigchld_handler(); /* if we are started by init (process 1) via /etc/inittab we needn't bother to detach from our process group context */ if (getppid() == 1) goto nottyDetach; /* Ignore BSD terminal stop signals */ #ifdef SIGTTOU signal(SIGTTOU, SIG_IGN); #endif #ifdef SIGTTIN signal(SIGTTIN, SIG_IGN); #endif #ifdef SIGTSTP signal(SIGTSTP, SIG_IGN); #endif /* In case we were not started in the background, fork and let the parent exit. Guarantees that the child is not a process group leader */ if ((childpid = fork()) < 0) { perror("fork"); return(PS_IOERR); } else if (childpid > 0) exit(0); /* parent */ /* Make ourselves the leader of a new process group with no controlling terminal */ #if defined(HAVE_SETSID) /* POSIX */ /* POSIX makes this soooo easy to do */ if (setsid() < 0) { perror("setsid"); return(PS_IOERR); } #elif defined(SIGTSTP) /* BSD */ /* change process group */ setpgrp(0, getpid()); /* lose controlling tty */ if ((fd = open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR)) >= 0) { ioctl(fd, TIOCNOTTY, (char *) 0); close(fd); } #else /* SVR3 and older */ /* change process group */ setpgrp(); /* lose controlling tty */ signal(SIGHUP, SIG_IGN); if ((childpid = fork) < 0) { perror("fork"); return(PS_IOERR); } else if (childpid > 0) { exit(0); /* parent */ } #endif nottyDetach: /* Close any/all open file descriptors */ #if defined(HAVE_GETDTABLESIZE) for (fd = getdtablesize()-1; fd >= 0; fd--) #elif defined(NOFILE) for (fd = NOFILE-1; fd >= 0; fd--) #else /* make an educated guess */ for (fd = 19; fd >= 0; fd--) #endif { close(fd); } /* Reopen stdin descriptor on /dev/null */ if ((fd = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR)) < 0) { /* stdin */ perror("open: /dev/null"); return(PS_IOERR); } if (logfile) open(logfile, O_CREAT|O_WRONLY, 0777); /* stdout */ else if (dup(fd) < 0) { /* stdout */ perror("dup"); return(PS_IOERR); } if (dup(fd) < 0) { /* stderr */ perror("dup"); return(PS_IOERR); } /* move to root directory, so we don't prevent filesystem unmounts */ chdir("/"); /* set our umask to something reasonable (we hope) */ #if defined(DEF_UMASK) umask(DEF_UMASK); #else umask(022); #endif /* set up to catch child process termination signals */ signal(SIGCLD, sigchld_handler); }