From f3e30a97d234c8f2fbca461bd3801febc6cf2148 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: brain <brain@e03df62e-2008-0410-955e-edbf42e46eb7>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:32:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] When daemonizing, have parent process wait forever, and child
 process kill it when we're done initializing

git-svn-id: http://svn.inspircd.org/repository/trunk/inspircd@4953 e03df62e-2008-0410-955e-edbf42e46eb7
---
 src/inspircd.cpp | 16 ++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/inspircd.cpp b/src/inspircd.cpp
index 3fddb2d8b..9ebb92b1e 100644
--- a/src/inspircd.cpp
+++ b/src/inspircd.cpp
@@ -120,9 +120,11 @@ bool InspIRCd::DaemonSeed()
 		return (ERROR);
 	else if (childpid > 0)
 	{
-		/* We wait a few seconds here, so that the shell prompt doesnt come back over the output */
-		sleep(6);
-		exit (0);
+		/* We wait here for the child process to kill us,
+		 * so that the shell prompt doesnt come back over
+		 * the output */
+		while (1)
+			sleep(600);
 	}
 	setsid ();
 	umask (007);
@@ -140,7 +142,7 @@ bool InspIRCd::DaemonSeed()
 		if (setrlimit(RLIMIT_CORE, &rl) == -1)
 			this->Log(DEFAULT,"setrlimit() failed, cannot increase coredump size.");
 	}
-  
+
 	return true;
 }
 
@@ -303,9 +305,11 @@ InspIRCd::InspIRCd(int argc, char** argv)
 
 	if (!Config->nofork)
 	{
-		fclose(stdout);
-		fclose(stderr);
+		if (kill(getppid(), SIGTERM) == -1)
+			printf("Error killing parent process: %s\n",strerror(errno));
 		fclose(stdin);
+		fclose(stderr);
+		fclose(stdout);
 	}
 
 	printf("\nInspIRCd is now running!\n");
-- 
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