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-/*
-
-Copyright 1988, 1998 The Open Group
-Copyright 2000,2001,2003 Oswald Buddenhagen <[email protected]>
-
-Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
-documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that
-the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
-copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
-documentation.
-
-The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
-in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
-OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
-MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
-IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR
-OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
-ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
-OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
-
-Except as contained in this notice, the name of a copyright holder shall
-not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or
-other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization
-from the copyright holder.
-
-*/
-
-/*
- * 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( "/" );
-}