Do not rely on dicts.merge to change target
Also make dicts.merge actually not touch target. This is much cleaner
than modifying in place, especially since we assign the result of the
dicts.merge call to target most of the time anyway.
Patch by: Sverre Rabbelier
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