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1 /*
2 Unix SMB/CIFS implementation.
3 Samba utility functions
4 Copyright (C) Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998
5 Copyright (C) Jeremy Allison 2001-2002
6 Copyright (C) Simo Sorce 2001
7 Copyright (C) Jim McDonough (jmcd@us.ibm.com) 2003.
8 Copyright (C) James J Myers 2003
10 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
11 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
12 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
13 (at your option) any later version.
15 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
16 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
17 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
18 GNU General Public License for more details.
20 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
21 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
24 #include "includes.h"
25 #include "system/filesys.h"
26 #include "system/locale.h"
28 /*******************************************************************
29 Close the low 3 fd's and open dev/null in their place.
30 ********************************************************************/
32 _PUBLIC_ void close_low_fds(bool stdin_too, bool stdout_too, bool stderr_too)
34 #ifndef VALGRIND
35 int fd;
36 int i;
38 if (stdin_too)
39 close(0);
40 if (stdout_too)
41 close(1);
43 if (stderr_too)
44 close(2);
46 /* try and use up these file descriptors, so silly
47 library routines writing to stdout etc won't cause havoc */
48 for (i=0;i<3;i++) {
49 if (i == 0 && !stdin_too)
50 continue;
51 if (i == 1 && !stdout_too)
52 continue;
53 if (i == 2 && !stderr_too)
54 continue;
56 fd = open("/dev/null",O_RDWR,0);
57 if (fd < 0)
58 fd = open("/dev/null",O_WRONLY,0);
59 if (fd < 0) {
60 DEBUG(0,("Can't open /dev/null\n"));
61 return;
63 if (fd != i) {
64 DEBUG(0,("Didn't get file descriptor %d\n",i));
65 close(fd);
66 return;
69 #endif
72 /****************************************************************************
73 Become a daemon, discarding the controlling terminal.
74 ****************************************************************************/
76 _PUBLIC_ void become_daemon(bool do_fork, bool no_process_group, bool log_stdout)
78 if (do_fork) {
79 if (fork()) {
80 _exit(0);
84 /* detach from the terminal */
85 #ifdef HAVE_SETSID
86 if (!no_process_group) setsid();
87 #elif defined(TIOCNOTTY)
88 if (!no_process_group) {
89 int i = open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR, 0);
90 if (i != -1) {
91 ioctl(i, (int) TIOCNOTTY, (char *)0);
92 close(i);
95 #endif /* HAVE_SETSID */
97 /* Close fd's 0,1,2 as appropriate. Needed if started by rsh. */
98 /* stdin must be open if we do not fork, for monitoring for
99 * close. stdout must be open if we are logging there, and we
100 * never close stderr (but debug might dup it onto a log file) */
101 close_low_fds(do_fork, !log_stdout, false);