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at February 16, 2010 04:40 by sukantahazra
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/**
* Skeleton daemon code.
* Author: Sukanta K. Hazra <sukanta at hazra dot net>
*/
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <syslog.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
/**
* This function forks out a child process and exits the parent
*/
int daemon_init(void)
{
pid_t pid;
if ((pid = fork()) < 0) {
return -1;
} else if (pid !=0) {
exit(0); /* parent goes bye-bye */
}
/* child continues */
setsid(); /* become session leader */
chdir("/"); /* change working directory */
umask(0); /* clear our file mode creation mask */
close(STDIN_FILENO); /* close the unneeded file descriptors */
close(STDOUT_FILENO);
close(STDERR_FILENO);
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
daemon_init();
/* Execute the processing code here */
/* For logging you might want to use syslog or open a log file */
syslog(LOG_ERR, "SKH: Entering the main code section");
return 0;
}
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Skeleton daemon process for unix
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Unix daemon process
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unix, linux
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C