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authorMichael Krelin <hacker@klever.net>2011-03-20 02:19:04 (UTC)
committer Michael Krelin <hacker@klever.net>2011-03-20 02:19:04 (UTC)
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don't double-fork
Signed-off-by: Michael Krelin <hacker@klever.net>
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-rw-r--r--src/eyefiservice.cc11
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/src/eyefiservice.cc b/src/eyefiservice.cc
index 0bf26c4..4ca2777 100644
--- a/src/eyefiservice.cc
+++ b/src/eyefiservice.cc
@@ -14,11 +14,8 @@ static binary_t session_nonce;
static bool detached_child() {
pid_t p = fork();
- if(p<0) throw std::runtime_error("failed to fork()");
- if(!p) {
- p = fork();
if(p<0) {
- syslog(LOG_ERR,"Failed to re-fork child process");
+ syslog(LOG_ERR,"Failed to fork away for hook execution");
_exit(-1);
}
if(!p) {
@@ -29,12 +26,6 @@ static bool detached_child() {
i = dup(i); assert(i==2);
return true;
}
- _exit(0);
- }
- int rc;
- if(waitpid(p,&rc,0)<0) throw std::runtime_error("failed to waitpid()");
- if(!WIFEXITED(rc)) throw std::runtime_error("error in forked process");
- if(WEXITSTATUS(rc)) throw std::runtime_error("forked process signalled error");
return false;
}