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1 | .\" -*-nroff-*- |
| 2 | .\" | |
| 3 | .\" Manual for daemonization | |
| 4 | .\" | |
| 5 | .\" (c) 2007, 2009, 2024 Straylight/Edgeware | |
| 6 | .\" | |
| 7 | . | |
| 8 | .\"----- Licensing notice --------------------------------------------------- | |
| 9 | .\" | |
| 10 | .\" This file is part of the mLib utilities library. | |
| 11 | .\" | |
| 12 | .\" mLib is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under | |
| 13 | .\" the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by | |
| 14 | .\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at | |
| 15 | .\" your option) any later version. | |
| 16 | .\" | |
| 17 | .\" mLib is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT | |
| 18 | .\" ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or | |
| 19 | .\" FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Library General Public | |
| 20 | .\" License for more details. | |
| 21 | .\" | |
| 22 | .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public | |
| 23 | .\" License along with mLib. If not, write to the Free Software | |
| 24 | .\" Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, | |
| 25 | .\" USA. | |
| 26 | . | |
| 27 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| 28 | .so ../defs.man \" @@@PRE@@@ | |
| 29 | . | |
| 30 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| 31 | .TH daemonize 3mLib "6 January 2007" "Straylight/Edgeware" "mLib utilities library" | |
| 32 | .\" @detachtty | |
| 33 | .\" @daemonize | |
| 34 | . | |
| 35 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| 36 | .SH NAME | |
| 37 | daemonize \- become a background process | |
| 38 | . | |
| 39 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| 40 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 41 | . | |
| 42 | .nf | |
| 43 | .B "#include <mLib/daemonize.h>" | |
| 44 | .PP | |
| 45 | .B "void detachtty(void);" | |
| 46 | .B "int daemonize(void);" | |
| 47 | .fi | |
| 48 | . | |
| 49 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| 50 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 51 | . | |
| 52 | The | |
| 53 | .B daemonize | |
| 54 | function causes the current process to become a background process. It | |
| 55 | detaches from its controlling terminal and arranges never to acquire | |
| 56 | another controlling terminal. If it fails for some reason (probably | |
| 57 | because | |
| 58 | .BR fork (2) | |
| 59 | failed), | |
| 60 | .B daemonize | |
| 61 | returns \-1 and sets | |
| 62 | .BR errno ; | |
| 63 | on success, it returns 0. | |
| 64 | .PP | |
| 65 | The | |
| 66 | .B detachtty | |
| 67 | does half of the job of | |
| 68 | .BR daemonize : | |
| 69 | it detaches from its controlling terminal, and calls | |
| 70 | .BR setsid (2) | |
| 71 | and | |
| 72 | .BR fork (2) | |
| 73 | so that it can't acquire a new controlling terminal in future. Errors | |
| 74 | are ignored. | |
| 75 | . | |
| 76 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| 77 | .SH SEE ALSO | |
| 78 | . | |
| 79 | .BR mLib (3). | |
| 80 | . | |
| 81 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| 82 | .SH AUTHOR | |
| 83 | . | |
| 84 | Mark Wooding, <mdw@distorted.org.uk> | |
| 85 | . | |
| 86 | .\"----- That's all, folks -------------------------------------------------- |