From 72e46b3a1e3322f59a591f1da1a63e362f4fc384 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Georg Hopp <georg@steffers.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:46:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add daemonize code from other project. (Might be integrated
 in a future class but i am not sure right now

---
 src/daemonize.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/daemonize.c

diff --git a/src/daemonize.c b/src/daemonize.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6776da1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/daemonize.c
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#include <stdio.h>      /* for printf() and fprintf() */
+#include <unistd.h>     /* for getopt */
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+
+void daemonize(void) {
+    pid_t pid;
+
+    if (0 > ((pid = fork()))) {
+        perror("deamoinze[fork]");
+        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+    } else if (0 != pid) {
+        exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
+    }
+
+    /* make new child session leader */
+    setsid();
+
+    /* connect all standard streams to /dev/null */
+    freopen("/dev/null", "w", stderr);
+    freopen("/dev/null", "r", stdin);
+    freopen("/dev/null", "w", stdout);
+}