app/django/utils/daemonize.py
author Lennard de Rijk <ljvderijk@gmail.com>
Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:06:04 +0000
changeset 1559 283046e54c01
parent 323 ff1a9aa48cfd
permissions -rw-r--r--
Fixed issue 205. Registered students can't apply to become an organization. If for some reason the org sign up period and student sign up period are run in parallel and a student has applied to become an org, the application will still go through the normal system. Although the student won't be able to become an org admin until he has been invalidated as a student. Patch by: Lennard de Rijk Reviewed by: to-be-reviewed

import os
import sys

if os.name == 'posix':
    def become_daemon(our_home_dir='.', out_log='/dev/null',
                      err_log='/dev/null', umask=022):
        "Robustly turn into a UNIX daemon, running in our_home_dir."
        # First fork
        try:
            if os.fork() > 0:
                sys.exit(0)     # kill off parent
        except OSError, e:
            sys.stderr.write("fork #1 failed: (%d) %s\n" % (e.errno, e.strerror))
            sys.exit(1)
        os.setsid()
        os.chdir(our_home_dir)
        os.umask(umask)

        # Second fork
        try:
            if os.fork() > 0:
                os._exit(0)
        except OSError, e:
            sys.stderr.write("fork #2 failed: (%d) %s\n" % (e.errno, e.strerror))
            os._exit(1)

        si = open('/dev/null', 'r')
        so = open(out_log, 'a+', 0)
        se = open(err_log, 'a+', 0)
        os.dup2(si.fileno(), sys.stdin.fileno())
        os.dup2(so.fileno(), sys.stdout.fileno())
        os.dup2(se.fileno(), sys.stderr.fileno())
        # Set custom file descriptors so that they get proper buffering.
        sys.stdout, sys.stderr = so, se
else:
    def become_daemon(our_home_dir='.', out_log=None, err_log=None, umask=022):
        """
        If we're not running under a POSIX system, just simulate the daemon
        mode by doing redirections and directory changing.
        """
        os.chdir(our_home_dir)
        os.umask(umask)
        sys.stdin.close()
        sys.stdout.close()
        sys.stderr.close()
        if err_log:
            sys.stderr = open(err_log, 'a', 0)
        else:
            sys.stderr = NullDevice()
        if out_log:
            sys.stdout = open(out_log, 'a', 0)
        else:
            sys.stdout = NullDevice()

    class NullDevice:
        "A writeable object that writes to nowhere -- like /dev/null."
        def write(self, s):
            pass