Commit faa0f7ff authored by Nick Mathewson's avatar Nick Mathewson 🐘
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Use daemon(3) function where available. 


svn:r665
parent 71e5ad71

configure.in

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@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ dnl These headers are not essential 


AC_CHECK_HEADERS(stdint.h sys/types.h inttypes.h sys/wait.h netinet/in.h arpa/inet.h)



AC_CHECK_FUNCS(gettimeofday ftime socketpair uname)

AC_CHECK_FUNCS(gettimeofday ftime socketpair uname daemon)



dnl In case we aren't given a working stdint.h, we'll need to grow our own.

dnl Watch out.

src/common/util.c

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@@ -548,7 +548,13 @@ get_uname(void) 
}

      

void daemonize(void) {

#ifndef MS_WINDOWS

#ifdef HAVE_DAEMON

  if (daemon(0 /* chdir to / */,

	     0 /* Redirect std* to /dev/null */)) {

    log_fn(LOG_ERR, "Daemon returned an error: %s", strerror(errno));

    exit(1);

  }

#elif ! defined(MS_WINDOWS)

  /* Fork; parent exits. */

  if (fork())

    exit(0);