/* GNU Mailutils -- a suite of utilities for electronic mail Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA */ #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H # include #endif #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include static char *pidfile; static pid_t current_pid; int daemon_create_pidfile (const char *filename) { char pid_string[10]; /* 32bit PID */ int fd; if (filename[0] != '/') { return 1; /* failure */ } if (pidfile) free (pidfile); pidfile = strdup (filename); unlink (pidfile); current_pid = getpid (); if ((fd = open (pidfile, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC | O_EXCL, 0644)) == -1) { return 2; /* failure */ } snprintf (pid_string, sizeof (pid_string) - 1, "%lu\n", (unsigned long) current_pid); write (fd, pid_string, strlen (pid_string)); close (fd); atexit (daemon_remove_pidfile); return 0; } void daemon_remove_pidfile (void) { if (getpid () == current_pid) { unlink (pidfile); free (pidfile); } }