/* pidfile.c - interact with pidfiles Copyright (c) 1995 Martin Schulze This file is part of the sysklogd package, a kernel and system log daemon. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */ /* * Sat Aug 19 13:24:33 MET DST 1995: Martin Schulze * First version (v0.2) released */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include /* read_pid * * Reads the specified pidfile and returns the read pid. * 0 is returned if either there's no pidfile, it's empty * or no pid can be read. */ int read_pid (char *pidfile) { FILE *f; int pid; if (!(f=fopen(pidfile,"r"))) return 0; fscanf(f,"%d", &pid); fclose(f); return pid; } /* check_pid * * Reads the pid using read_pid and looks up the pid in the process * table (using /proc) to determine if the process already exists. If * so 1 is returned, otherwise 0. */ int check_pid (char *pidfile) { int pid = read_pid(pidfile); /* Amazing ! _I_ am already holding the pid file... */ if ((!pid) || (pid == getpid ())) return 0; /* * The 'standard' method of doing this is to try and do a 'fake' kill * of the process. If an ESRCH error is returned the process cannot * be found -- GW */ /* But... errno is usually changed only on error.. */ if (kill(pid, 0) && errno == ESRCH) return(0); return pid; } /* write_pid * * Writes the pid to the specified file. If that fails 0 is * returned, otherwise the pid. */ int write_pid (char *pidfile) { FILE *f; int fd; int pid; if ( ((fd = open(pidfile, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0644)) == -1) || ((f = fdopen(fd, "r+")) == NULL) ) { fprintf(stderr, "Can't open or create %s.\n", pidfile); return 0; } if (flock(fd, LOCK_EX|LOCK_NB) == -1) { fscanf(f, "%d", &pid); fclose(f); printf("Can't lock, lock is held by pid %d.\n", pid); return 0; } pid = getpid(); if (!fprintf(f,"%d\n", pid)) { printf("Can't write pid , %s.\n", strerror(errno)); close(fd); return 0; } fflush(f); if (flock(fd, LOCK_UN) == -1) { printf("Can't unlock pidfile %s, %s.\n", pidfile, strerror(errno)); close(fd); return 0; } close(fd); return pid; } /* remove_pid * * Remove the the specified file. The result from unlink(2) * is returned */ int remove_pid (char *pidfile) { return unlink (pidfile); }