/* * setsid.c -- execute a command in a new session * Rick Sladkey * In the public domain. * * 1999-02-22 Arkadiusz Miƛkiewicz * - added Native Language Support * * 2001-01-18 John Fremlin * - fork in case we are process group leader * * 2008-08-20 Daniel Kahn Gillmor * - if forked, wait on child process and emit its return code. */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include "c.h" #include "nls.h" #include "closestream.h" static void __attribute__((__noreturn__)) usage(void) { FILE *out = stdout; fputs(USAGE_HEADER, out); fprintf(out, _( " %s [options] [arguments ...]\n"), program_invocation_short_name); fputs(USAGE_SEPARATOR, out); fputs(_("Run a program in a new session.\n"), out); fputs(USAGE_OPTIONS, out); fputs(_(" -c, --ctty set the controlling terminal to the current one\n"), out); fputs(_(" -w, --wait wait program to exit, and use the same return\n"), out); printf(USAGE_HELP_OPTIONS(16)); printf(USAGE_MAN_TAIL("setsid(1)")); exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); } int main(int argc, char **argv) { int ch; int ctty = 0; pid_t pid; int status = 0; static const struct option longopts[] = { {"ctty", no_argument, NULL, 'c'}, {"wait", no_argument, NULL, 'w'}, {"version", no_argument, NULL, 'V'}, {"help", no_argument, NULL, 'h'}, {NULL, 0, NULL, 0} }; setlocale(LC_ALL, ""); bindtextdomain(PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR); textdomain(PACKAGE); atexit(close_stdout); while ((ch = getopt_long(argc, argv, "+Vhcw", longopts, NULL)) != -1) switch (ch) { case 'V': printf(UTIL_LINUX_VERSION); return EXIT_SUCCESS; case 'c': ctty=1; break; case 'w': status = 1; break; case 'h': usage(); default: errtryhelp(EXIT_FAILURE); } if (argc - optind < 1) { warnx(_("no command specified")); errtryhelp(EXIT_FAILURE); } if (getpgrp() == getpid()) { pid = fork(); switch (pid) { case -1: err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("fork")); case 0: /* child */ break; default: /* parent */ if (!status) return EXIT_SUCCESS; if (wait(&status) != pid) err(EXIT_FAILURE, "wait"); if (WIFEXITED(status)) return WEXITSTATUS(status); err(status, _("child %d did not exit normally"), pid); } } if (setsid() < 0) /* cannot happen */ err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("setsid failed")); if (ctty && ioctl(STDIN_FILENO, TIOCSCTTY, 1)) err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("failed to set the controlling terminal")); execvp(argv[optind], argv + optind); err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("failed to execute %s"), argv[optind]); }