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.\" @(#)daemon.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
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.\" Added mentioning of glibc weirdness wrt unistd.h. 5/11/98, Al Viro
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.TH DAEMON 3 2016-03-15 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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daemon \- run in the background
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B #include <unistd.h>
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.PP
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.BI "int daemon(int " nochdir ", int " noclose );
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.PP
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.in -4n
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Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
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.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
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.in
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.PP
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.BR daemon ():
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.nf
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Since glibc 2.21:
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.\" commit 266865c0e7b79d4196e2cc393693463f03c90bd8
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_DEFAULT_SOURCE
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In glibc 2.19 and 2.20:
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_DEFAULT_SOURCE || (_XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE\ <\ 500)
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Up to and including glibc 2.19:
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_BSD_SOURCE || (_XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE\ <\ 500)
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.fi
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.BR daemon ()
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function is for programs wishing to detach themselves from the
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controlling terminal and run in the background as system daemons.
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.PP
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If
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.I nochdir
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is zero,
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.BR daemon ()
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changes the process's current working directory
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to the root directory ("/");
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otherwise, the current working directory is left unchanged.
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.PP
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If
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.I noclose
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is zero,
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.BR daemon ()
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redirects standard input, standard output and standard error
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to
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.IR /dev/null ;
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otherwise, no changes are made to these file descriptors.
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.SH RETURN VALUE
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(This function forks, and if the
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.BR fork (2)
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succeeds, the parent calls
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.\" not .IR in order not to underline _
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.BR _exit (2),
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so that further errors are seen by the child only.)
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On success
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.BR daemon ()
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returns zero.
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If an error occurs,
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.BR daemon ()
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returns \-1 and sets
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.I errno
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to any of the errors specified for the
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.BR fork (2)
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and
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.BR setsid (2).
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.SH ATTRIBUTES
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For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
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.BR attributes (7).
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.TS
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allbox;
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lb lb lb
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l l l.
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Interface Attribute Value
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T{
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.BR daemon ()
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T} Thread safety MT-Safe
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.TE
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.SH CONFORMING TO
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Not in POSIX.1.
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A similar function appears on the BSDs.
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The
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.BR daemon ()
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function first appeared in 4.4BSD.
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.SH NOTES
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The glibc implementation can also return \-1 when
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.I /dev/null
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exists but is not a character device with the expected
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major and minor numbers.
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In this case,
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.I errno
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need not be set.
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.SH BUGS
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The GNU C library implementation of this function was taken from BSD,
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and does not employ the double-fork technique (i.e.,
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.BR fork (2),
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.BR setsid (2),
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.BR fork (2))
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that is necessary to ensure that the resulting daemon process is
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not a session leader.
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Instead, the resulting daemon
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.I is
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a session leader.
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.\" FIXME . https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19144
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.\" Tested using a program that uses daemon() and then opens an
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.\" otherwise unused console device (/dev/ttyN) that does not
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.\" have an associated getty process.
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On systems that follow System V semantics (e.g., Linux),
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this means that if the daemon opens a terminal that is not
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already a controlling terminal for another session,
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then that terminal will inadvertently become
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the controlling terminal for the daemon.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR fork (2),
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.BR setsid (2)
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