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- /*
- * Copyright (c) 1990 Carnegie Mellon University
- * All Rights Reserved.
- *
- * Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and its
- * documentation is hereby granted, provided that both the copyright
- * notice and this permission notice appear in all copies of the
- * software, derivative works or modified versions, and any portions
- * thereof, and that both notices appear in supporting documentation.
- *
- * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
- * DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL
- * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT
- * SHALL CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT,
- * INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER
- * RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF
- * CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN
- * CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
- *
- * Users of this software agree to return to Carnegie Mellon any
- * improvements or extensions that they make and grant Carnegie the
- * rights to redistribute these changes.
- *
- * Export of this software is permitted only after complying with the
- * regulations of the U.S. Deptartment of Commerce relating to the
- * Export of Technical Data.
- */
- #include <c.h>
- /*
- * This routine does a double fork so that the (grand)child won't
- * hang on exit because the (grand)parent never wait(2)ed for it.
- * Note: grandchild will be inherited by init (proc 1) on exit.
- **********************************************************************
- * HISTORY
- * $Log: dfork.c,v $
- * Revision 1.2 90/12/11 17:51:32 mja
- * Add copyright/disclaimer for distribution.
- *
- * 30-Apr-85 Steven Shafer (sas) at Carnegie-Mellon University
- * Adapted for 4.2 BSD UNIX. Inserted READ and WRITE macros here
- * rather than using <modes.h>, which is obsolete.
- *
- * 13-Mar-85 Glenn Marcy (gm0w) at Carnegie-Mellon University
- * Made code more careful about closing pipes in cases of system
- * call failures.
- *
- */
-
- #define READ 0
- #define WRITE 1
-
- dfork() {
- int pid;
- int fildes[2];
-
- if (pipe(fildes) == CERROR)
- return(CERROR);
- if ((pid = fork()) == CERROR) {
- close(fildes[READ]);
- close(fildes[WRITE]);
- return(CERROR);
- }
- if (pid) {
- close(fildes[WRITE]);
- while (wait(0) != pid);
- if (read(fildes[READ], &pid, sizeof(int)) != sizeof(int))
- pid = CERROR;
- close(fildes[READ]);
- return(pid);
- } else {
- close(fildes[READ]);
- if ((pid = fork()) == CERROR)
- exit(CERROR);
- if (pid) {
- write(fildes[WRITE], &pid, sizeof(int));
- close(fildes[WRITE]);
- exit(0);
- }
- close(fildes[WRITE]);
- return(0);
- }
- }
-