Replace inet_aton() with inet_pton() to parse IPs correctly (#8825)

[libi2ncommon] / src / pidfile.cpp

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/**
   Pid file handling

   @copyright Intra2net AG
*/
#include "pidfile.hpp"
#include <sys/types.h>

#include <signal.h>
#include <fstream>
#include <sstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <stdexcept>

#include "filefunc.hxx"
#include <unistd.h>

using namespace std;
using namespace I2n;

/**
 * Constructor.
 * @param filename Full path to the pid file
 * @param remove_file_on_destruction Remove pid file on destruction of the object. Only useful if running as root.
 */
PidFile::PidFile(const std::string &filename, bool remove_file_on_destruction)
{
   Filename = filename;
   RemoveFileOnDestruction = remove_file_on_destruction;
   WroteFile = false;
}

/**
 * Destructor. We delete the pid file if #RemoveFileOnDestruction is set
 * and we actually wrote a file (#WroteFile).
 * This is only possible if we run with root priviledges as /var/run
 * is root writable only.
 */
PidFile::~PidFile()
{
   if (RemoveFileOnDestruction && WroteFile)
      unlink(Filename);
}

/**
 * Checks if the pid file for this program already exists.
 * If yes it does a "kill" probe to see if it is alive.
 * @param running_pid[out] Store pid number of instance if already running
 * @return true if running, false otherweise
 */
bool PidFile::check_already_running(pid_t *running_pid)
{
   // Check if there is an existing pid file
   ifstream in(Filename.c_str());
   if (!in)
      return false;

   pid_t read_pid = 0;
   if (!(in >> read_pid))
      return false;

   // Ok, we got an existing pid file.
   // Check if program is still alive
   if (kill(read_pid, 0) == 0)
   {
      if (running_pid)
         *running_pid = read_pid;

      // State: running
      return true;
   }

   // Default state: not running
   return false;
}

/**
 * Write pid file
 * @return true if file was written, false otherwise
 */
bool PidFile::write()
{
   ofstream out(Filename.c_str());
   if (!out)
      return false;

   out << getpid() << endl;

   WroteFile = true;

   return true;
}