// Copyright (c) 2003-2011 Christopher M. Kohlhoff (chris at kohlhoff dot com) // // Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying // file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) // #include "daemonizer/posix_fork.h" #include "misc_log_ex.h" #include #include #include #include #include #ifndef TMPDIR #define TMPDIR "/tmp" #endif namespace posix { namespace { void quit(const std::string & message) { LOG_ERROR(message); throw std::runtime_error(message); } } void fork(const std::string & pidfile) { // If a PID file is specified, we open the file here, because // we can't report errors after the fork operation. // When we fork, we close thise file in each of the parent // processes. // Only in the final child process do we write the PID to the // file (and close it). std::ofstream pidofs; if (! pidfile.empty ()) { int oldpid; std::ifstream pidrifs; pidrifs.open(pidfile, std::fstream::in); if (! pidrifs.fail()) { // Read the PID and send signal 0 to see if the process exists. if (pidrifs >> oldpid && oldpid > 1 && kill(oldpid, 0) == 0) { quit("PID file " + pidfile + " already exists and the PID therein is valid"); } pidrifs.close(); } pidofs.open(pidfile, std::fstream::out | std::fstream::trunc); if (pidofs.fail()) { quit("Failed to open specified PID file for writing"); } } // Fork the process and have the parent exit. If the process was started // from a shell, this returns control to the user. Forking a new process is // also a prerequisite for the subsequent call to setsid(). if (pid_t pid = ::fork()) { if (pid > 0) { // We're in the parent process and need to exit. pidofs.close(); // When the exit() function is used, the program terminates without // invoking local variables' destructors. Only global variables are // destroyed. exit(0); } else { quit("First fork failed"); } } // Make the process a new session leader. This detaches it from the // terminal. setsid(); // A second fork ensures the process cannot acquire a controlling terminal. if (pid_t pid = ::fork()) { if (pid > 0) { pidofs.close(); exit(0); } else { quit("Second fork failed"); } } if (! pidofs.fail()) { int pid = ::getpid(); pidofs << pid << std::endl; pidofs.close(); } // Close the standard streams. This decouples the daemon from the terminal // that started it. close(0); close(1); close(2); // We don't want the daemon to have any standard input. if (open("/dev/null", O_RDONLY) < 0) { quit("Unable to open /dev/null"); } #ifdef DEBUG_TMPDIR_LOG // Send standard output to a log file. const char *tmpdir = getenv("TMPDIR"); if (!tmpdir) tmpdir = TMPDIR; std::string output = tmpdir; output += "/wownero.daemon.stdout.stderr"; const int flags = O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_APPEND; const mode_t mode = S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH; if (open(output.c_str(), flags, mode) < 0) { quit("Unable to open output file: " + output); } #else if (open("/dev/null", O_WRONLY) < 0) { quit("Unable to open /dev/null"); } #endif // Also send standard error to the same log file. if (dup(1) < 0) { quit("Unable to dup output descriptor"); } } } // namespace posix