It takes _talent_ to implement a version of nohup that does everything except
[oweals/busybox.git] / coreutils / nohup.c
1 /* vi:set ts=4: */
2 /* nohup - invoke a utility immune to hangups.
3  * 
4  * Busybox version based on nohup specification at
5  * http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/sed.html
6  * 
7  * Copyright 2006 Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
8  * 
9  * Licensed under GPLv2 or later, see file LICENSE in this tarball for details.
10  */
11
12 #include <fcntl.h>
13 #include <signal.h>
14 #include <unistd.h>
15 #include "busybox.h"
16
17 int nohup_main(int argc, char *argv[])
18 {
19         int temp, nullfd;
20         char *nohupout = "nohup.out", *home = NULL;
21
22         if (argc<2) bb_show_usage();
23
24         nullfd = bb_xopen(bb_dev_null, O_WRONLY|O_APPEND);
25         // If stdin is a tty, detach from it.
26
27         if (isatty(0)) dup2(nullfd, 0);
28
29         // Redirect stdout to nohup.out, either in "." or in "$HOME".
30
31         if (isatty(1)) {
32                 close(1);
33                 if (open(nohupout, O_CREAT|O_WRONLY|O_APPEND, S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR) < 0) {
34                         home = getenv("HOME");
35                         if (home) {
36                                 home = concat_path_file(home, nohupout);
37                                 bb_xopen3(nohupout, O_CREAT|O_WRONLY|O_APPEND, S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR);
38                         }
39                 }
40         } else dup2(nullfd, 1);
41
42         // If we have a tty on strderr, announce filename and redirect to stdout.
43         // Else redirect to /dev/null.
44
45         temp = isatty(2);
46         if (temp) fdprintf(2,"Writing to %s\n", home ? home : nohupout);
47         dup2(temp ? 1 : nullfd, 2);
48         close(nullfd);
49         signal (SIGHUP, SIG_IGN);
50
51         // Exec our new program.
52
53         execvp(argv[1],argv+1);
54         if (ENABLE_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP) free(home);
55         bb_error_msg_and_die("exec %s",argv[1]);
56 }