From 2aa67e804d85f4d88153368ce65ce4df7b5390e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bob Halley <source@isc.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 21:12:33 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add ns_os_deamonize()

---
 bin/named/unix/include/named/os.h |  3 +++
 bin/named/unix/os.c               | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+)

diff --git a/bin/named/unix/include/named/os.h b/bin/named/unix/include/named/os.h
index b146bdec32..41de451cc0 100644
--- a/bin/named/unix/include/named/os.h
+++ b/bin/named/unix/include/named/os.h
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@
 isc_result_t
 ns_os_init(void);
 
+isc_result_t
+ns_os_daemonize(void);
+
 void
 ns_os_shutdown(void);
 
diff --git a/bin/named/unix/os.c b/bin/named/unix/os.c
index 48451250f2..57b9206d95 100644
--- a/bin/named/unix/os.c
+++ b/bin/named/unix/os.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <syslog.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
 
 #include <isc/result.h>
 
@@ -92,6 +93,38 @@ ns_os_init(void) {
 	return (ISC_R_SUCCESS);
 }
 
+isc_result_t
+ns_os_daemonize(void) {
+	pid_t pid;
+	int fd;
+
+	pid = fork();
+	if (pid == -1)
+		return (ISC_R_FAILURE);
+	if (pid != 0)
+                _exit(0);
+
+	/*
+	 * We're the child.
+	 */
+
+        if (setsid() == -1)
+                return (ISC_R_FAILURE);
+
+	/*
+	 * Try to set stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null, but press
+	 * on even if it fails.
+	 */
+	fd = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR, 0);
+	if (fd != -1) {
+		(void)dup2(fd, STDIN_FILENO);
+		(void)dup2(fd, STDOUT_FILENO);
+		(void)dup2(fd, STDERR_FILENO);
+	}
+
+	return (ISC_R_SUCCESS);
+}
+
 void
 ns_os_shutdown(void) {
 	closelog();