/* * Copyright (c) 2004-2005 The Trustees of Indiana University. * All rights reserved. * Copyright (c) 2004-2005 The Trustees of the University of Tennessee. * All rights reserved. * Copyright (c) 2004-2005 High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, * University of Stuttgart. All rights reserved. * Copyright (c) 2004-2005 The Regents of the University of California. * All rights reserved. * $COPYRIGHT$ * * Additional copyrights may follow * * $HEADER$ */ #include "ompi_config.h" #ifdef HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H #include #endif #include #include #ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H #include #endif #include #include "include/constants.h" #include "opal/util/daemon_init.h" int opal_daemon_init(char *working_dir) { #ifndef WIN32 /* it seems that there is an entirely different way to write daemons in WINDOWS land. Firstly, they are called services and the way to go about it is to get a service handle annd then call CreateService() So, I am guessing that this piece of code is called only by UNIX versions */ pid_t pid; int fd; if ((pid = fork()) < 0) { return OMPI_ERROR; } else if (pid != 0) { exit(0); /* parent goes bye-bye */ } /* child continues */ setsid(); /* become session leader */ if (NULL != working_dir) { chdir(working_dir); /* change working directory */ } umask(0); /* clear file mode creation mask */ /* connect input to /dev/null */ fd = open("/dev/null", O_RDONLY); if(fd > STDIN_FILENO) { dup2(fd, STDIN_FILENO); close(fd); } /* connect outputs to /dev/null */ fd = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666); if (fd >= 0) { dup2(fd, STDOUT_FILENO); dup2(fd, STDERR_FILENO); /* just to be safe, make sure we aren't trying * to close stdout or stderr! since we dup'd both * of them to the same fd, we can't just close it * since one of the two would still be open and * someone could attempt to use it. */ if(fd != STDOUT_FILENO && fd != STDERR_FILENO) { close(fd); } } else { return OMPI_ERR_FATAL; } return OMPI_SUCCESS; #else printf ("This function has not been implemented in windows yet, file %s line %d\n", __FILE__, __LINE__); abort(); #endif }