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/* tinyproxy - A fast light-weight HTTP proxy
 * Copyright (C) 2002 Robert James Kaes <rjkaes@users.sourceforge.net>
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
 * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
 * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
 */

/* This file contains functions which are useful when writing a
 * daemon process.  The functions include a "makedaemon" function and
 * a function to portably set a signal handler.
 */

#include "main.h"

#include "daemon.h"

/*
 * Fork a child process and then kill the parent so make the calling
 * program a daemon process.
 */
void
makedaemon (void)
{
  if (fork () != 0)
    exit (0);

  setsid ();
  set_signal_handler (SIGHUP, SIG_IGN);

  if (fork () != 0)
    exit (0);

  chdir ("/");
  umask (0177);

#if NDEBUG
  /*
   * When not in debugging mode, close the standard file
   * descriptors.
   */
  close (0);
  close (1);
  close (2);
#endif
}

/*
 * Pass a signal number and a signal handling function into this function
 * to handle signals sent to the process.
 */
signal_func *
set_signal_handler (int signo, signal_func * func)
{
  struct sigaction act, oact;

  act.sa_handler = func;
  sigemptyset (&act.sa_mask);
  act.sa_flags = 0;
  if (signo == SIGALRM)
    {
#ifdef SA_INTERRUPT
      act.sa_flags |= SA_INTERRUPT;     /* SunOS 4.x */
#endif
    }
  else
    {
#ifdef SA_RESTART
      act.sa_flags |= SA_RESTART;       /* SVR4, 4.4BSD */
#endif
    }

  if (sigaction (signo, &act, &oact) < 0)
    return SIG_ERR;

  return oact.sa_handler;
}