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| author | Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> | 2017-08-04 23:04:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> | 2017-08-04 23:04:17 +0200 |
| commit | b182e9ad6011909fdb76358431d23d195febaf54 (patch) | |
| tree | 650b66e06387f8b0f7fe054a53150809aede7701 /debianutils | |
| parent | 692eeb81a4c54d7d8bf0d2e370c12762b2a16ff7 (diff) | |
libbb: use _exit, not exit, in bb_daemonize_or_rexec()
By the time we reach exit in parent, child already exited or execed.
We should not re-run libc cleanup code.
While at it, introduce bb_daemon_helper() and add a few comments.
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'debianutils')
| -rw-r--r-- | debianutils/start_stop_daemon.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/debianutils/start_stop_daemon.c b/debianutils/start_stop_daemon.c index 9d60b2c7f..07c104baa 100644 --- a/debianutils/start_stop_daemon.c +++ b/debianutils/start_stop_daemon.c @@ -516,6 +516,11 @@ int start_stop_daemon_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv) /* DAEMON_DEVNULL_STDIO is superfluous - * it's always done by bb_daemonize() */ #else + /* Daemons usually call bb_daemonize_or_rexec(), but SSD can do + * without: SSD is not itself a daemon, it _execs_ a daemon. + * The usual NOMMU problem of "child can't run indefinitely, + * it must exec" does not bite us: we exec anyway. + */ pid_t pid = xvfork(); if (pid != 0) { /* parent */ @@ -525,12 +530,8 @@ int start_stop_daemon_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv) } /* Child */ setsid(); /* detach from controlling tty */ - /* Redirect stdio to /dev/null, close extra FDs. - * We do not actually daemonize because of DAEMON_ONLY_SANITIZE */ - bb_daemonize_or_rexec(DAEMON_DEVNULL_STDIO - + DAEMON_CLOSE_EXTRA_FDS - + DAEMON_ONLY_SANITIZE, - NULL /* argv, unused */ ); + /* Redirect stdio to /dev/null, close extra FDs */ + bb_daemon_helper(DAEMON_DEVNULL_STDIO + DAEMON_CLOSE_EXTRA_FDS); #endif } if (opt & OPT_MAKEPID) { |