// 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 "common/exception.h" #include "daemonizer/posix_fork.h" #include "misc_log_ex.h" #include #include #include #include #include #include namespace posix { namespace { void quit(std::string const & message) { LOG_ERROR(message); throw tools::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