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- /*-
- * Copyright (c) 1990, 1993
- * The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
- *
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- * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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- * California, Berkeley and its contributors.
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- * may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
- * without specific prior written permission.
- *
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-
- /*
- * From: @(#)daemon.c 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
- * NetBSD: daemon.c,v 1.4 1995/02/25 13:41:16 cgd Exp
- */
- char daemon_rcsid[] =
- "$Id: daemon.c,v 1.2 1996/07/14 22:05:38 dholland Exp $";
-
- #include <fcntl.h>
- #include <paths.h>
- #include <unistd.h>
-
- int daemon(int nochdir, int noclose)
- {
- int fd;
-
- switch (fork()) {
- case -1:
- return -1;
- case 0:
- break;
- default:
- _exit(0);
- }
-
- if (setsid() == -1) return -1;
- if (!nochdir) chdir("/");
- if (noclose) return 0;
-
- fd = open(_PATH_DEVNULL, O_RDWR, 0);
- if (fd != -1) {
- dup2(fd, STDIN_FILENO);
- dup2(fd, STDOUT_FILENO);
- dup2(fd, STDERR_FILENO);
- if (fd > 2) close(fd);
- }
- return 0;
- }
-