From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2004-09-01T23:58:01+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 24054-24170

>>>>> "D" == Daniel Berger <djberg96@hotmail.com> writes:

D> For those operating systems (e.g. Solaris) that don't have the
D> daemon() function, what about calling umask(0) and normalizing the
D> PATH?

 source of *BSD


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)
                (void)chdir("/");

        if (!noclose && (fd = open(_PATH_DEVNULL, O_RDWR, 0)) != -1) {
                (void)dup2(fd, STDIN_FILENO);
                (void)dup2(fd, STDOUT_FILENO);
                (void)dup2(fd, STDERR_FILENO);
                if (fd > 2)
                        (void)close (fd);
        }
        return (0);
}



Guy Decoux