don't double-fork

Signed-off-by: Michael Krelin <hacker@klever.net>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/src/eyefiservice.cc b/src/eyefiservice.cc
index 0bf26c4..4ca2777 100644
--- a/src/eyefiservice.cc
+++ b/src/eyefiservice.cc
@@ -9,37 +9,28 @@
 #include "eyekinfig.h"
 #include "eyetil.h"
 #include "soapeyefiService.h"
 
 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<0) {
+        syslog(LOG_ERR,"Failed to fork away for hook execution");
+        _exit(-1);
+    }
     if(!p) {
-        p = fork();
-        if(p<0) {
-            syslog(LOG_ERR,"Failed to re-fork child process");
-            _exit(-1);
-        }
-        if(!p) {
-            setsid();
-            for(int i=getdtablesize();i>=0;--i) close(i);
-            int i=open("/dev/null",O_RDWR); assert(i==0);
-            i = dup(i); assert(i==1);
-            i = dup(i); assert(i==2);
-            return true;
-        }
-        _exit(0);
+        setsid();
+        for(int i=getdtablesize();i>=0;--i) close(i);
+        int i=open("/dev/null",O_RDWR); assert(i==0);
+        i = dup(i); assert(i==1);
+        i = dup(i); assert(i==2);
+        return true;
     }
-    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;
 }
 
 int eyefiService::StartSession(
         std::string macaddress,std::string cnonce,
         int transfermode,long transfermodetimestamp,
         struct rns__StartSessionResponse &r ) try {
 #ifndef NDEBUG