/* * xdm - display manager daemon * * $XConsortium: daemon.c,v 1.4 89/01/16 17:13:00 keith Exp $ * * Copyright 1988 Massachusetts Institute of Technology * * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its * documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided * that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that * copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting * documentation, and that the name of M.I.T. not be used in advertising or * publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, * written prior permission. M.I.T. makes no representations about the * suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" * without express or implied warranty. * * Author: Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium */ #include #include #ifdef hpux #include #endif extern void exit (); BecomeDaemon () { register int i; /* * fork so that the process goes into the background automatically. Also * has a nice side effect of having the child process get inherited by * init (pid 1). */ if (fork ()) /* if parent */ exit (0); /* then no more work to do */ /* * Close standard file descriptors and get rid of controlling tty */ #ifdef SYSV setpgrp (); #else setpgrp (0, getpid()); #endif close (0); close (1); close (2); if ((i = open ("/dev/tty", O_RDWR)) >= 0) { /* did open succeed? */ #if defined(SYSV) && defined(TIOCTTY) int zero = 0; (void) ioctl (i, TIOCTTY, &zero); #else (void) ioctl (i, TIOCNOTTY, (char *) 0); /* detach, BSD style */ #endif (void) close (i); } /* * Set up the standard file descriptors. */ (void) open ("/", O_RDONLY); /* root inode already in core */ (void) dup2 (0, 1); (void) dup2 (0, 2); }