// // daemon.cpp // ~~~~~~~~~~ // // Copyright (c) 2003-2023 Christopher M. Kohlhoff (chris at kohlhoff dot com) // // Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying // file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) // #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include using asio::ip::udp; class udp_daytime_server { public: udp_daytime_server(asio::io_context& io_context) : socket_(io_context, {udp::v4(), 13}) { receive(); } private: void receive() { socket_.async_receive_from( asio::buffer(recv_buffer_), remote_endpoint_, [this](std::error_code ec, std::size_t /*n*/) { if (!ec) { using namespace std; // For time_t, time and ctime; time_t now = time(0); std::string message = ctime(&now); std::error_code ignored_ec; socket_.send_to(asio::buffer(message), remote_endpoint_, 0, ignored_ec); } receive(); }); } udp::socket socket_; udp::endpoint remote_endpoint_; std::array recv_buffer_; }; int main() { try { asio::io_context io_context; // Initialise the server before becoming a daemon. If the process is // started from a shell, this means any errors will be reported back to the // user. udp_daytime_server server(io_context); // Register signal handlers so that the daemon may be shut down. You may // also want to register for other signals, such as SIGHUP to trigger a // re-read of a configuration file. asio::signal_set signals(io_context, SIGINT, SIGTERM); signals.async_wait( [&](std::error_code /*ec*/, int /*signo*/) { io_context.stop(); }); // Inform the io_context that we are about to become a daemon. The // io_context cleans up any internal resources, such as threads, that may // interfere with forking. io_context.notify_fork(asio::io_context::fork_prepare); // Fork the process and have the parent exit. If the process was started // from a shell, this returns control to the user. Forking a new process is // also a prerequisite for the subsequent call to setsid(). if (pid_t pid = fork()) { if (pid > 0) { // We're in the parent process and need to exit. // // When the exit() function is used, the program terminates without // invoking local variables' destructors. Only global variables are // destroyed. As the io_context object is a local variable, this means // we do not have to call: // // io_context.notify_fork(asio::io_context::fork_parent); // // However, this line should be added before each call to exit() if // using a global io_context object. An additional call: // // io_context.notify_fork(asio::io_context::fork_prepare); // // should also precede the second fork(). exit(0); } else { syslog(LOG_ERR | LOG_USER, "First fork failed: %m"); return 1; } } // Make the process a new session leader. This detaches it from the // terminal. setsid(); // A process inherits its working directory from its parent. This could be // on a mounted filesystem, which means that the running daemon would // prevent this filesystem from being unmounted. Changing to the root // directory avoids this problem. chdir("/"); // The file mode creation mask is also inherited from the parent process. // We don't want to restrict the permissions on files created by the // daemon, so the mask is cleared. umask(0); // A second fork ensures the process cannot acquire a controlling terminal. if (pid_t pid = fork()) { if (pid > 0) { exit(0); } else { syslog(LOG_ERR | LOG_USER, "Second fork failed: %m"); return 1; } } // Close the standard streams. This decouples the daemon from the terminal // that started it. close(0); close(1); close(2); // We don't want the daemon to have any standard input. if (open("/dev/null", O_RDONLY) < 0) { syslog(LOG_ERR | LOG_USER, "Unable to open /dev/null: %m"); return 1; } // Send standard output to a log file. const char* output = "/tmp/asio.daemon.out"; const int flags = O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_APPEND; const mode_t mode = S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH; if (open(output, flags, mode) < 0) { syslog(LOG_ERR | LOG_USER, "Unable to open output file %s: %m", output); return 1; } // Also send standard error to the same log file. if (dup(1) < 0) { syslog(LOG_ERR | LOG_USER, "Unable to dup output descriptor: %m"); return 1; } // Inform the io_context that we have finished becoming a daemon. The // io_context uses this opportunity to create any internal file descriptors // that need to be private to the new process. io_context.notify_fork(asio::io_context::fork_child); // The io_context can now be used normally. syslog(LOG_INFO | LOG_USER, "Daemon started"); io_context.run(); syslog(LOG_INFO | LOG_USER, "Daemon stopped"); } catch (std::exception& e) { syslog(LOG_ERR | LOG_USER, "Exception: %s", e.what()); std::cerr << "Exception: " << e.what() << std::endl; } }