2 Bacula® - The Network Backup Solution
4 Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Free Software Foundation Europe e.V.
6 The main author of Bacula is Kern Sibbald, with contributions from
7 many others, a complete list can be found in the file AUTHORS.
8 This program is Free Software; you can redistribute it and/or
9 modify it under the terms of version two of the GNU General Public
10 License as published by the Free Software Foundation plus additions
11 that are listed in the file LICENSE.
13 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
14 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
15 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
16 General Public License for more details.
18 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
19 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
20 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
23 Bacula® is a registered trademark of John Walker.
24 The licensor of Bacula is the Free Software Foundation Europe
25 (FSFE), Fiduciary Program, Sumatrastrasse 25, 8006 Zürich,
26 Switzerland, email:ftf@fsfeurope.org.
29 * daemon.c by Kern Sibbald
33 * this code is inspired by the Prentice Hall book
34 * "Unix Network Programming" by W. Richard Stevens
35 * and later updated from his book "Advanced Programming
36 * in the UNIX Environment"
38 * Initialize a daemon process completely detaching us from
39 * any terminal processes.
45 extern int debug_level;
50 #if !defined(HAVE_WIN32)
63 Dmsg0(900, "Enter daemon_start\n");
64 if ( (cpid = fork() ) < 0) {
66 Emsg1(M_ABORT, 0, _("Cannot fork to become daemon: %s\n"), be.bstrerror());
67 } else if (cpid > 0) {
68 exit(0); /* parent exits */
74 /* In the PRODUCTION system, we close ALL
75 * file descriptors except stdin, stdout, and stderr.
77 if (debug_level > 0) {
78 low_fd = 2; /* don't close debug output */
80 for (i=sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX)-1; i > low_fd; i--) {
84 /* Move to root directory. For debug we stay
85 * in current directory so dumps go there.
92 * Avoid creating files 666 but don't override any
93 * more restrictive mask set by the user.
101 * Make sure we have fd's 0, 1, 2 open
102 * If we don't do this one of our sockets may open
103 * there and if we then use stdout, it could
104 * send total garbage to our socket.
108 fd = open("/dev/null", O_RDONLY, 0644);
112 for(i=1; fd + i <= 2; i++) {
117 #endif /* HAVE_WIN32 */
118 Dmsg0(900, "Exit daemon_start\n");