Here is a tentative patch to dissasociate for the controlling tty when
in daemon mode. No attempt was made to autoconfigure. As it stands,
you need to define either HAVE_SETSID or HAVE_TIOCNOTTY.
How does this look?
--- src/daemon.c 1996/04/19 13:36:04 1.1
+++ src/daemon.c 1996/04/19 13:39:33
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
#include "exim.h"
-
+#include <sys/ioctl.h> /* for TIOCNOTTY */
/*************************************************
@@ -368,10 +368,25 @@
if (debug_level == 0 && !debug_trace_memory)
{
+ int i;
int pid = fork();
if (pid < 0) log_write(LOG_PANIC_DIE, "fork() failed: %s", strerror(errno));
if (pid > 0) exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); /* in parent process, just exit */
}
+
+ /* Dissociate from controlling tty */
+#ifdef HAVE_SETSID
+ (void)setsid();
+#else
+#ifdef HAVE_TIOCNOTTY
+ if ((i = open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR)) >= 0) {
+ if (ioctl(i, TIOCNOTTY, (char *)NULL) < 0)
+ log_write (LOG_PANIC_DIE, "%s cant ioctl(TIOCNOTTY) %s", LogName, strerror(errno));
+ if (close(i) < 0)
+ log_write (LOG_PANIC_DIE, "%s cant close /dev/tty %s", LogName, strerror(errno));
+ }
+#endif /* HAVE_TIOCNOTTY */
+#endif /* HAVE_SETSID */
/* If SMTP listening is requested, set up a socket on the SMTP port or
--- OS/os.h-HP-UX 1996/04/19 13:36:46 1.1
+++ OS/os.h-HP-UX 1996/04/19 13:36:53
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
#define F_FREESP O_TRUNC
#define NEED_H_ERRNO 1
+#define HAVE_SETSID
typedef struct flock flock_t;
/* End */
