/*

Copyright 1988, 1998  The Open Group
Copyright 2000,2001,2003 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>

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*/

/*
 * xdm - display manager daemon
 * Author: Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium
 */

#include "dm.h"
#include "dm_error.h"

void
becomeDaemon(void)
{
    int pfd[2];

    /*
     * fork so that the process goes into the background automatically. Also
     * has a nice side effect of having the child process get inherited by
     * init (pid 1).
     * Create a pipe and block on it, so the parent knows when the child is
     * done with detaching. This eliminates the possibility that the child
     * might get killed when the init script that's running xdm exits.
     */

    if (pipe(pfd))
        pfd[0] = pfd[1] = -1; /* so what ...? */
    switch (fork()) {
    case 0:
        /* child */
        break;
    case -1:
        /* error */
        logError("Daemon fork failed: %m\n");
        break;

    default:
        /* parent */
        close(pfd[1]);
        read(pfd[0], &pfd[1] /* dummy */, 1);
        exit(0);
    }

    /* don't use daemon() - it doesn't buy us anything but an additional fork */

    setsid();

    close(pfd[0]);
    close(pfd[1]); /* tell parent that we're done with detaching */

    chdir("/");
}
