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-#ifndef foodaemonforkhfoo
-#define foodaemonforkhfoo
-
-/* $Id$ */
-
-/*
- * This file is part of libdaemon.
- *
- * libdaemon is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
- * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * libdaemon is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- * General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with libdaemon; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
- * Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.
- */
-
-#include <sys/types.h>
-
-#ifdef __cplusplus
-extern "C" {
-#endif
-
-/** \mainpage
- *
- * For a brief explanation of libdaemons's purpose, have a look on <a
- * href="../../README.html">the README file</a>. Thank you!
- *
- */
-
-/** \example testd.c
- * This is an example for the usage of libdaemon
- */
-
-/** \file
- *
- * Contains an API for doing a daemonizing fork().
- *
- * You may daemonize by calling daemon_fork(), a function similar to
- * the plain fork(). If you want to return a return value of the
- * initialization procedure of the child from the parent, you may use
- * the daemon_retval_xxx() functions.
- */
-
-/** Does a daemonizing fork(). For the new daemon process STDIN,
- * STDOUT, STDERR are connected to /dev/null, the process is a session
- * leader, the current directory is changed to /, the umask is set to
- * 777.
- * @return On success, the PID of the child process is returned in the
- * parent's thread of execution, and a 0 is returned in the child's
- * thread of execution. On failure, -1 will be returned in the
- * parent's context, no child process will be created, and errno will
- * be set appropriately.
- */
-pid_t daemon_fork(void);
-
-/** Allocate and initialize resources required by the
- * daemon_retval_xxx() functions. These functions allow the child to
- * send a value to the parent after completing its initialisation.
- * Call this in the parent before forking.
- * @return zero on success, nonzero on failure.
- */
-int daemon_retval_init(void);
-
-/** Frees the resources allocated by daemon_retval_init(). This should
- * be called if neither daemon_retval_wait() nor daemon_retval_send()
- * is called in the current process. The resources allocated by
- * daemon_retval_init() should be freed in both parent and daemon
- * process. This may be achieved by using daemon_retval_wait()
- * resp. daemon_retval_send(), or by using daemon_retval_done().
- */
-void daemon_retval_done(void);
-
-/** Return the value sent by the child via the daemon_retval_send()
- * function, but wait only the specified number of seconds before
- * timing out and returning a negative number. Should be called just
- * once from the parent process only. A subsequent call to
- * daemon_retval_done() in the parent is ignored.
- *
- * @param timeout Thetimeout in seconds
- * @return The integer passed daemon_retval_send() in the daemon process, or -1 on failure.
- */
-int daemon_retval_wait(int timeout);
-
-/** Send the specified integer to the parent process. Do not send -1
- * because this signifies a library error. Should be called just once
- * from the daemon process only. A subsequent call to
- * daemon_retval_done() in the daemon is ignored. @param s The
- * integer to pass to daemon_retval_wait() in the parent process
- * @return Zero on success, nonzero on failure.
- */
-int daemon_retval_send(int s);
-
-#ifdef __cplusplus
-}
-#endif
-
-#endif