Loading...
gen/daemon.3 Libc-498 /dev/null
--- Libc/Libc-498/gen/daemon.3
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,118 +0,0 @@
-.\" Copyright (c) 1993
-.\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
-.\"
-.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
-.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
-.\" are met:
-.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
-.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
-.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
-.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
-.\"    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
-.\"    must display the following acknowledgement:
-.\"	This product includes software developed by the University of
-.\"	California, Berkeley and its contributors.
-.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
-.\"    may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
-.\"    without specific prior written permission.
-.\"
-.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
-.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
-.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
-.\" ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
-.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
-.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
-.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
-.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
-.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
-.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
-.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
-.\"
-.\"	@(#)daemon.3	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
-.\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/gen/daemon.3,v 1.14 2003/11/10 22:04:51 ghelmer Exp $
-.\"
-.Dd June 9, 1993
-.Dt DAEMON 3
-.Os
-.Sh NAME
-.Nm daemon
-.Nd run in the background
-.Sh LIBRARY
-.Lb libc
-.Sh SYNOPSIS
-.In stdlib.h
-.Ft int
-.Fn daemon "int nochdir" "int noclose"
-.Sh DESCRIPTION
-The
-.Fn daemon
-function is for programs wishing to detach themselves from the
-controlling terminal and run in the background as system daemons.
-On Mac OS X, the use of this API is discouraged in favor of using
-.Xr launchd 8 .
-.Pp
-Unless the argument
-.Fa nochdir
-is non-zero,
-.Fn daemon
-changes the current working directory to the root
-.Pq Pa / .
-.Pp
-Unless the argument
-.Fa noclose
-is non-zero,
-.Fn daemon
-will redirect standard input, standard output, and standard error to
-.Pa /dev/null .
-.Sh RETURN VALUES
-.Rv -std daemon
-.Sh ERRORS
-The
-.Fn daemon
-function may fail and set
-.Va errno
-for any of the errors specified for the library functions
-.Xr fork 2
-and
-.Xr setsid 2 .
-.Sh SEE ALSO
-.Xr fork 2 ,
-.Xr setsid 2 ,
-.Xr sigaction 2
-.Sh HISTORY
-The
-.Fn daemon
-function first appeared in
-.Bx 4.4 .
-.Sh CAVEATS
-Unless the
-.Fa noclose
-argument is non-zero,
-.Fn daemon
-will close the first three file descriptors and redirect them to
-.Pa /dev/null .
-Normally, these correspond to standard input, standard output, and
-standard error.
-However, if any of those file descriptors refer to something else, they
-will still be closed, resulting in incorrect behavior of the calling program.
-This can happen if any of standard input, standard output, or standard
-error have been closed before the program was run.
-Programs using
-.Fn daemon
-should therefore either call
-.Fn daemon
-before opening any files or sockets, or verify that any file
-descriptors obtained have values greater than 2.
-.Pp
-The
-.Fn daemon
-function temporarily ignores
-.Dv SIGHUP
-while calling
-.Xr setsid 2
-to prevent a parent session group leader's calls to
-.Xr fork 2
-and then
-.Xr _exit 2
-from prematurely terminating the child process.