add handling of stdio descriptors

[libi2ncommon] / src / daemonfunc.hpp

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/***************************************************************************
 *   Copyright (C) 2008 by Intra2net AG - Thomas Jarosch                   *
 ***************************************************************************/
#ifndef DAEMONFUNC_H
#define DAEMONFUNC_H

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <string>
#include <vector>

/// Collection of functions for daemons
namespace I2n
{
namespace Daemon
{
void daemonize();
void daemonize_full();

bool drop_root_privileges(const std::string &username,
                          const std::string &group, bool get_group_from_user=false);

bool pid_of(const std::string& name, std::vector< pid_t >& result);

pid_t create_session (void);
void null_fds (void);
}
}

#endif