VBoxGuestR3LibDaemonize.cpp revision 9970533eb8928d78014c45ebf08e2e265e1839b1
/** $Id$ */
/** @file
* VBoxGuestR3Lib - Ring-3 Support Library for VirtualBox guest additions, daemonize a process.
*/
/*
* Copyright (C) 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
*
* This file is part of VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE), as
* available from http://www.virtualbox.org. This file is free software;
* General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software
* Foundation, in version 2 as it comes in the "COPYING" file of the
* VirtualBox OSE distribution. VirtualBox OSE is distributed in the
* hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY of any kind.
*
* Please contact Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa
* Clara, CA 95054 USA or visit http://www.sun.com if you need
* additional information or have any questions.
*/
/*******************************************************************************
* Header Files *
*******************************************************************************/
#if defined(RT_OS_DARWIN)
# error "PORTME"
# define INCL_BASE
# define INCL_ERRORS
# include <os2.h>
#elif defined(RT_OS_WINDOWS)
# error "PORTME"
#else /* the unices */
# include <stdio.h>
# include <fcntl.h>
# include <stdlib.h>
# include <unistd.h>
# include <signal.h>
# include <errno.h>
#endif
#include <VBox/VBoxGuest.h>
/**
* Daemonize the process for running in the background.
*
* This is supposed to do the same job as the BSD daemon() call.
*
* @returns 0 on success
*
* @param fNoChDir Pass false to change working directory to root.
* @param pszPidfile Path to a file to write the pid of the daemon process
* to. Daemonising will fail if this file already exists
* or cannot be written. Optional.
*/
char const *pszPidfile)
{
#if defined(RT_OS_DARWIN)
# error "PORTME"
/** @todo create a pidfile if this is (/was :) ) usual on OS/2 */
/* Get the full path to the executable. */
char szExe[CCHMAXPATH];
if (rc)
return RTErrConvertFromOS2(rc);
/* calc the length of the command line. */
char *pchArgs;
{
while (*pch);
}
else
{
if (cch1)
else
}
/* spawn a detach process */
char szObj[128];
RESULTCODES ResCodes = { 0, 0 };
szObj[0] = '\0';
rc = DosExecPgm(szObj, sizeof(szObj), EXEC_BACKGROUND, (PCSZ)pchArgs, NULL, &ResCodes, (PCSZ)szExe);
if (rc)
{
/* VBoxServiceError("DosExecPgm failed with rc=%d and szObj='%s'\n", rc, szObj); */
return RTErrConvertFromOS2(rc);
}
DosExit(EXIT_PROCESS, 0);
return VERR_GENERAL_FAILURE;
#elif defined(RT_OS_WINDOWS)
# error "PORTME"
#else /* the unices */
/*
* Fork the child process in a new session and quit the parent.
*
* - fork once and create a new session (setsid). This will detach us
* from the controlling tty meaning that we won't receive the SIGHUP
* (or any other signal) sent to that session.
* us one before we get to the setsid.
* - When the parent exit(0) we will become an orphan and re-parented to
* the init process.
* - Because of the Linux / System V sematics of assigning the controlling
* tty automagically when a session leader first opens a tty, we will
* fork() once more on Linux to get rid of the session leadership role.
*/
/* We start off by opening the pidfile, so that we can fail straight away
* if it already exists. */
if (pszPidfile != NULL)
{
/* @note the exclusive create is not guaranteed on all file
* systems (e.g. NFSv2) */
| (0644 << RTFILE_O_CREATE_MODE_SHIFT));
if (!RT_SUCCESS(rc))
return rc;
}
if (pid == -1)
return RTErrConvertFromErrno(errno);
if (pid != 0)
{
# ifndef RT_OS_LINUX /* On Linux we do another fork later */
if (hPidfile != NIL_RTFILE)
{
char szBuf[256];
}
# endif
exit(0);
}
/*
* The orphaned child becomes is reparented to the init process.
* We create a new session for it (setsid), point the standard
*/
int SavedErrno = errno;
if (rcSigAct != -1)
if (newpgid == -1)
return RTErrConvertFromErrno(SavedErrno);
if (!fNoClose)
{
{
}
if (fd != -1)
{
if (fd > 2)
}
}
if (!fNoChDir)
chdir("/");
/*
* Change the umask - this is non-standard daemon() behavior.
*/
umask(027);
# ifdef RT_OS_LINUX
/*
* And fork again to lose session leader status (non-standard daemon()
* behaviour).
*/
if (pid == -1)
return RTErrConvertFromErrno(errno);
if (pid != 0)
{
if (hPidfile != NIL_RTFILE)
{
char szBuf[256];
}
exit(0);
}
# endif /* RT_OS_LINUX */
return VINF_SUCCESS;
#endif
}