Daemon in C++

Steps for daemon.

1. fork child process.
2. if child fork success, exit parent.
3. umask file permission for child.
4. set session id or attach with init process.
5. change current working dirctory.
6. close standard file descriptors.
7. start daemon work initilization.
8. run daemon loop.
9. handle signals for terminating( we will see next blog).

Sample code daemon loop used Posix Queue toen-queuemessages from old post.

Sample code

void run_daemon() { fork_child(); initchild(); run_daemon(); exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); }

Function used in sample

void fork_child() { pid_t sid;

// fork off the parent process

pid = fork();

// return -1 if failed

if (pid < 0) { exit(EXIT_FAILURE); }

// If we got PID, then exit the parent process.

if (pid > 0) { exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); } } void initchild() { pid_t sid

// set the file mask.

umask(0);

// open log file here for logging.

// set session id for child process.

sid = setsid(); if (sid < 0) { exit(EXIT_FAILURE); }

// change the current working directory

if ((chdir("/")) < 0) { exit(EXIT_FAILURE); }

// close standard file descriptors

close(STDIN_FILENO); close(STDOUT_FILENO); close(STDERR_FILENO); }

Main daemon loop

void daemon_loop() {

// daemon-specific initialization

mqd_t mqid; if(open_queue(mqid)){

// daemon loop

while (1) {

// daemon work

send_message(mqid,"This message from daemon",64); sleep(1); // wait } close_queue(mqid); } }