/* * This code is mainly taken from Doug Potter's page * * http://www-theorie.physik.unizh.ch/~dpotter/howto/daemonize * * I contacted him 2007-04-16 about the license for the original code, * he replied it is Public Domain. Use the URL above to get the original * Public Domain version if you want it. * * This version is LGPL2 and is (c)2006 - 2013 Andy Green */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include "private-libwebsockets.h" int pid_daemon; static char *lock_path; int get_daemonize_pid() { return pid_daemon; } static void child_handler(int signum) { int fd; int len; int sent; char sz[20]; switch (signum) { case SIGALRM: /* timedout daemonizing */ exit(1); break; case SIGUSR1: /* positive confirmation we daemonized well */ /* Create the lock file as the current user */ fd = open(lock_path, O_TRUNC | O_RDWR | O_CREAT, 0640); if (fd < 0) { fprintf(stderr, "unable to create lock file %s, code=%d (%s)\n", lock_path, errno, strerror(errno)); exit(1); } len = sprintf(sz, "%u", pid_daemon); sent = write(fd, sz, len); if (sent != len) fprintf(stderr, "unable write pid to lock file %s, code=%d (%s)\n", lock_path, errno, strerror(errno)); close(fd); exit(!!(sent == len)); case SIGCHLD: /* daemonization failed */ exit(1); break; } } static void lws_daemon_closing(int sigact) { if (getpid() == pid_daemon) if (lock_path) { unlink(lock_path); free(lock_path); lock_path = NULL; } kill(getpid(), SIGKILL); } /* * You just need to call this from your main(), when it * returns you are all set "in the background" decoupled * from the console you were started from. * * The process context you called from has been terminated then. */ LWS_VISIBLE int lws_daemonize(const char *_lock_path) { pid_t sid, parent; int fd; char buf[10]; int n, ret; struct sigaction act; /* already a daemon */ if (getppid() == 1) return 1; fd = open(_lock_path, O_RDONLY); if (fd > 0) { n = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf)); close(fd); if (n) { n = atoi(buf); ret = kill(n, 0); if (ret >= 0) { fprintf(stderr, "Daemon already running from pid %d\n", n); exit(1); } fprintf(stderr, "Removing stale lock file %s from dead pid %d\n", _lock_path, n); unlink(lock_path); } } n = strlen(_lock_path) + 1; lock_path = malloc(n); if (!lock_path) { fprintf(stderr, "Out of mem in lws_daemonize\n"); return 1; } strcpy(lock_path, _lock_path); /* Trap signals that we expect to recieve */ signal(SIGCHLD, child_handler); /* died */ signal(SIGUSR1, child_handler); /* was happy */ signal(SIGALRM, child_handler); /* timeout daemonizing */ /* Fork off the parent process */ pid_daemon = fork(); if (pid_daemon < 0) { fprintf(stderr, "unable to fork daemon, code=%d (%s)", errno, strerror(errno)); exit(1); } /* If we got a good PID, then we can exit the parent process. */ if (pid_daemon > 0) { /* * Wait for confirmation signal from the child via * SIGCHILD / USR1, or for two seconds to elapse * (SIGALRM). pause() should not return. */ alarm(2); pause(); /* should not be reachable */ exit(1); } /* At this point we are executing as the child process */ parent = getppid(); pid_daemon = getpid(); /* Cancel certain signals */ signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_DFL); /* A child process dies */ signal(SIGTSTP, SIG_IGN); /* Various TTY signals */ signal(SIGTTOU, SIG_IGN); signal(SIGTTIN, SIG_IGN); signal(SIGHUP, SIG_IGN); /* Ignore hangup signal */ /* Change the file mode mask */ umask(0); /* Create a new SID for the child process */ sid = setsid(); if (sid < 0) { fprintf(stderr, "unable to create a new session, code %d (%s)", errno, strerror(errno)); exit(1); } /* * Change the current working directory. This prevents the current * directory from being locked; hence not being able to remove it. */ if (chdir("/") < 0) { fprintf(stderr, "unable to change directory to %s, code %d (%s)", "/", errno, strerror(errno)); exit(1); } /* Redirect standard files to /dev/null */ if (!freopen("/dev/null", "r", stdin)) fprintf(stderr, "unable to freopen() stdin, code %d (%s)", errno, strerror(errno)); if (!freopen("/dev/null", "w", stdout)) fprintf(stderr, "unable to freopen() stdout, code %d (%s)", errno, strerror(errno)); if (!freopen("/dev/null", "w", stderr)) fprintf(stderr, "unable to freopen() stderr, code %d (%s)", errno, strerror(errno)); /* Tell the parent process that we are A-okay */ kill(parent, SIGUSR1); act.sa_handler = lws_daemon_closing; sigemptyset(&act.sa_mask); act.sa_flags = 0; sigaction(SIGTERM, &act, NULL); /* return to continue what is now "the daemon" */ return 0; }