C - make a daemon process

以前写的demo

#define DEV_NULL "/dev/null"
#define ROOT_PATH "/"

int redirect_fd(int fd, int flags) {

    /* Attempt to open bit bucket */
    int new_fd = open(DEV_NULL, flags);
    if (new_fd < 0)
        return 1;

    /* If descriptor is different, redirect old to new and close new */
    if (new_fd != fd) {
        dup2(new_fd, fd);
        close(new_fd);
    }

    return 0;

}

int daemonize() {

    pid_t pid;

    /* Fork once to ensure we aren't the process group leader */
    pid = fork();
    if (pid < 0) {
        return 1;
    }

    /* Exit if we are the parent */
    if (pid > 0) {
        _exit(0);
    }

    /* Start a new session (if not already group leader) */
    setsid();

    /* Fork again so the session group leader exits */
    pid = fork();
    if (pid < 0) {
        printf("Could not fork() group leader: %s", strerror(errno));
        return 1;
    }

    /* Exit if we are the parent */
    if (pid > 0) {
        printf("Exiting and passing control to PID %i", pid);
        _exit(0);
    }

    /* Change to root directory */
    if (chdir(ROOT_PATH) < 0) {
        printf(
                   "Unable to change working directory to "
                    ROOT_PATH);
        return 1;
    }

    /* Reopen the 3 stdxxx to /dev/null */

    if (redirect_fd(STDIN_FILENO, O_RDONLY)
    || redirect_fd(STDOUT_FILENO, O_WRONLY)
    || redirect_fd(STDERR_FILENO, O_WRONLY)) {

        printf(
                "Unable to redirect standard file descriptors to "
                DEV_NULL);
        return 1;
    }

    /* Success */
    return 0;

}