{-# LANGUAGE CPP #-} {- Copyright (C) 2005 John Goerzen This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA -} {- | Module : System.Daemon Copyright : Copyright (C) 2005 John Goerzen License : GNU GPL, version 2 or above Maintainer : John Goerzen Stability : provisional Portability: portable to platforms with POSIX process\/signal tools Tools for writing daemons\/server processes Written by John Goerzen, jgoerzen\@complete.org Please note: Most of this module is not compatible with Hugs. Messages from this module are logged under @System.Daemon@. See 'System.Log.Logger' for details. Based on background from and . This module is not available on Windows. -} module System.Daemon ( #ifndef mingw32_HOST_OS detachDaemon #endif ) where #ifndef mingw32_HOST_OS import System.Posix.Process import System.Posix.IO import System.Directory import System.Log.Logger import System.Exit trap :: IO a -> IO a trap = traplogging "System.Daemon" ERROR "detachDaemon" {- | Detach the process from a controlling terminal and run it in the background, handling it with standard Unix deamon semantics. After running this, please note the following side-effects: * The PID of the running process will change * stdin, stdout, and stderr will not work (they'll be set to \/dev\/null) * CWD will be changed to \/ I /highly/ suggest running this function before starting any threads. Note that this is not intended for a daemon invoked from inetd(1). -} detachDaemon :: IO () detachDaemon = trap $ do forkProcess child1 exitImmediately ExitSuccess child1 :: IO () child1 = trap $ do createSession forkProcess child2 exitImmediately ExitSuccess child2 :: IO () child2 = trap $ do setCurrentDirectory "/" mapM_ closeFd [stdInput, stdOutput, stdError] nullFd <- openFd "/dev/null" ReadWrite Nothing defaultFileFlags mapM_ (dupTo nullFd) [stdInput, stdOutput, stdError] closeFd nullFd #endif