adding daemon helper module

git-svn-id: https://reductivelabs.com/svn/puppet/library/trunk@528 980ebf18-57e1-0310-9a29-db15c13687c0

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/puppet/daemons.rb b/lib/puppet/daemons.rb
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/puppet/daemons.rb
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+# helper functions for daemons
+
+require 'puppet'
+
+module Puppet
+    module Daemon
+        def daemonize
+            if pid = fork()
+                Process.detach(pid)
+                exit(0)
+            end
+
+            Process.setsid
+            Dir.chdir("/")
+            begin
+                $stdin.reopen "/dev/null"
+                $stdout.reopen "/dev/null", "a"
+                $stderr.reopen $stdin
+            rescue => detail
+                Puppet.err "Could not start %s: %s" % [$0, detail]
+                exit(12)
+            end
+        end
+    end
+end
+
+# $Id$