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authorThomas Winget <tewinget@gmail.com>2015-03-25 07:30:23 -0400
committerThomas Winget <tewinget@gmail.com>2015-03-25 07:30:23 -0400
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+// 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 <cstdlib>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <stdexcept>
+#include <string>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+
+namespace posix {
+
+namespace {
+ void quit(std::string const & message)
+ {
+ LOG_ERROR(message);
+ throw std::runtime_error(message);
+ }
+}
+
+void fork()
+{
+ // 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.
+ //
+ // 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 process inherits its working directory from its parent. This could be
+ // on a mounted filesystem, which means that the running daemon would
+ // prevent this filesystem from being unmounted. Changing to the root
+ // directory avoids this problem.
+ if (chdir("/") < 0)
+ {
+ quit("Unable to change working directory to root");
+ }
+
+ // The file mode creation mask is also inherited from the parent process.
+ // We don't want to restrict the permissions on files created by the
+ // daemon, so the mask is cleared.
+ umask(0);
+
+ // A second fork ensures the process cannot acquire a controlling terminal.
+ if (pid_t pid = ::fork())
+ {
+ if (pid > 0)
+ {
+ exit(0);
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ quit("Second fork failed");
+ }
+ }
+
+ // 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");
+ }
+
+ // Send standard output to a log file.
+ const char* output = "/tmp/bitmonero.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, flags, mode) < 0)
+ {
+ quit("Unable to open output file: " + std::string(output));
+ }
+
+ // Also send standard error to the same log file.
+ if (dup(1) < 0)
+ {
+ quit("Unable to dup output descriptor");
+ }
+}
+
+} // namespace posix