Use daemon() to spawn syslogd and klogd daemons.

 -Erik

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/sysklogd/klogd.c b/sysklogd/klogd.c
index d5e330bdf..95d4eea65 100644
--- a/sysklogd/klogd.c
+++ b/sysklogd/klogd.c
@@ -124,18 +124,10 @@ static void doKlogd (void)
         }
 }
 
-static void daemon_init (char **argv, char *dz, void fn (void))
-{
-        setsid(); /* start a new session? */
-        strncpy(argv[0], dz, strlen(argv[0]));
-        fn();
-        exit(0);
-}
-
 extern int klogd_main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
         /* no options, no getopt */
-        int opt, pid;
+        int opt;
         int doFork = TRUE;
 
         /* do normal option parsing */
@@ -150,15 +142,10 @@ extern int klogd_main(int argc, char **argv)
         }
 
         if (doFork == TRUE) {
-                pid = fork();
-                if (pid < 0)
-                        exit(pid);
-                else if (pid == 0) {
-                        daemon_init (argv, "klogd", doKlogd);
-                }
-        } else {
-                doKlogd();
+                if (daemon(0, 1) < 0)
+                        perror_msg_and_die("daemon");
         }
+        doKlogd();
         
         return EXIT_SUCCESS;
 }