in the book "advanced programming in the unix environment"
the authors give the following function to "deamonize" a process
void daemonize(const char *cmd)
{
int i, fd0, fd1, fd2;
pid_t pid;
struct rlimit rl;
struct sigaction sa;
/*
* Clear file creation mask.
*/
umask(0);
/*
* Get maximum number of file descriptors.
*/
if (getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &rl) < 0)
err_quit("%s: can't get file limit", cmd);
/*
* Become a session leader to lose controlling TTY.
*/
if ((pid = fork()) < 0)
err_quit("%s: can't fork", cmd);
else if (pid != 0) /* parent */
exit(0);
setsid();
/*
* Ensure future opens won't allocate controlling TTYs.
*/
sa.sa_handler = SIG_IGN;
sigemptyset(&sa.sa_mask);
sa.sa_flags = 0;
if (sigaction(SIGHUP, &sa, NULL) < 0)
err_quit("%s: can't ignore SIGHUP");
if ((pid = fork()) < 0)
err_quit("%s: can't fork", cmd);
else if (pid != 0) /* parent */
exit(0);
/*
* Change the current working directory to the root so
* we won't prevent file systems from being unmounted.
*/
if (chdir("/") < 0)
err_quit("%s: can't change directory to /");
/*
* Close all open file descriptors.
*/
if (rl.rlim_max == RLIM_INFINITY)
rl.rlim_max = 1024;
for (i = 0; i < rl.rlim_max; i++)
close(i);
/*
* Attach file descriptors 0, 1, and 2 to /dev/null.
*/
fd0 = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR);
fd1 = dup(0);
fd2 = dup(0);
/*
* Initialize the log file.
*/
openlog(cmd, LOG_CONS, LOG_DAEMON);
if (fd0 != 0 || fd1 != 1 || fd2 != 2) {
syslog(LOG_ERR, "unexpected file descriptors %d %d %d",
fd0, fd1, fd2);
exit(1);
}
}the basic part of it being :: fork() and the then kill the parent.... How you this function insures that you won't get a zombie process?
Isn't terminating the parent before the child the way to create a zombie process?
PS::from the few things i've seen so far, it seems to me that socket programming{with seperate processes in local host} isn't that difficult but it can have bugs in places you least expect them..Specially if you don't have a thorough understanding of the functions you are using {i.e. io functions, general system calls,etc}....
