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-rw-r--r--libbb/Makefile.in2
-rw-r--r--libbb/bb_xdaemon.c17
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libbb/Makefile.in b/libbb/Makefile.in
index c69978370..3fb945e31 100644
--- a/libbb/Makefile.in
+++ b/libbb/Makefile.in
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ LIBBB-y:= \
trim.c u_signal_names.c vdprintf.c verror_msg.c \
vherror_msg.c vperror_msg.c wfopen.c xconnect.c xgetcwd.c xstat.c \
xgethostbyname.c xgethostbyname2.c xreadlink.c xregcomp.c xgetlarg.c \
- bb_xsocket.c \
+ bb_xsocket.c bb_xdaemon.c \
get_terminal_width_height.c fclose_nonstdin.c fflush_stdout_and_exit.c \
getopt_ulflags.c default_error_retval.c wfopen_input.c speed_table.c \
perror_nomsg_and_die.c perror_nomsg.c skip_whitespace.c bb_askpass.c \
diff --git a/libbb/bb_xdaemon.c b/libbb/bb_xdaemon.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a40f4f993
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libbb/bb_xdaemon.c
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+/* vi: set sw=4 ts=4: */
+/*
+ * bb_xdaemon.c - a daemon() which dies on failure with error message
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2006 Denis Vlasenko
+ *
+ * Licensed under LGPL, see file docs/lesser.txt in this tarball for details.
+ */
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include "libbb.h"
+
+void bb_xdaemon(int nochdir, int noclose)
+{
+ if (daemon(nochdir, noclose))
+ bb_perror_msg_and_die("daemon");
+}
+