Source code for daemonize

"""Module to daemonize the current process on Unix."""
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import codecs
import os
import stat
import sys
from typing import Optional


is_daemon = False


[docs]def daemonize(close_fd: bool = True, chdir: bool = True, redirect_std: Optional[str] = None) -> None: """ Daemonize the current process. Only works on POSIX compatible operating systems. The process will fork to the background and return control to terminal. :param close_fd: Close the standard streams and replace them by /dev/null :param chdir: Change the current working directory to / :param redirect_std: Filename to redirect stdout and stdin to """ # Fork away if not os.fork(): # Become session leader os.setsid() # Fork again to prevent the process from acquiring a # controlling terminal pid = os.fork() if not pid: global is_daemon is_daemon = True if close_fd: os.close(0) os.close(1) os.close(2) os.open('/dev/null', os.O_RDWR) if redirect_std: # R/W mode without execute flags mode = (stat.S_IRUSR | stat.S_IWUSR | stat.S_IRGRP | stat.S_IWGRP | stat.S_IROTH | stat.S_IWOTH) os.open(redirect_std, os.O_WRONLY | os.O_APPEND | os.O_CREAT, mode) else: os.dup2(0, 1) os.dup2(1, 2) if chdir: os.chdir('/') return # Write out the pid path = os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]) + '.pid' with codecs.open(path, 'w', 'utf-8') as f: f.write(str(pid)) # Exit to return control to the terminal # os._exit to prevent the cleanup to run os._exit(os.EX_OK)