* prelude.rb (Process.daemon): New method.

* .document: Add prelude.rb.



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.document

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
 # Process all the C source files
 *.c
 
+# prelude
+prelude.rb
+
 # the lib/ directory (which has its own .document file)
 
 lib

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Tue Mar 30 02:40:31 2010  Akinori MUSHA  <knu@iDaemons.org>
+
+	* prelude.rb (Process.daemon): New method.
+
+	* .document: Add prelude.rb.
+
 Mon Mar 29 17:38:24 2010  Keiju Ishitsuka  <keiju@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* ext/rational/lib/rational.rb: fix [Bug #1397].

NEWS

@@ -102,6 +102,10 @@ with all sufficient information, see the ChangeLog file.
 
     New method primarily for use in the case-when construct.
 
+  * Process.daemon
+
+    New method.
+
   * Range#cover?
 
     New alias to #include? for the forward compatibility with 1.9, in

prelude.rb

@@ -1 +1,36 @@
 # currently empty
+
+module Process
+  # call-seq:
+  #    Process.daemon()			       => 0
+  #    Process.daemon(nochdir=nil,noclose=nil) => 0
+  # 
+  # Detach the process from controlling terminal and run in
+  # the background as system daemon.  Unless the argument
+  # nochdir is true (i.e. non false), it changes the current
+  # working directory to the root ("/"). Unless the argument
+  # noclose is true, daemon() will redirect standard input,
+  # standard output and standard error to /dev/null.
+  # Return zero on success, or raise one of Errno::*.
+  def self.daemon(nochdir = nil, noclose = nil)
+    if $SAFE >= 2
+      raise SecurityError, "Insecure operation `%s' at level %d", __method__, $SAFE
+    end
+
+    fork && exit!(0)
+
+    Process.setsid()
+
+    fork && exit!(0)
+
+    Dir.chdir('/') unless nochdir
+
+    File.open('/dev/null', 'r+') { |f|
+      STDIN.reopen(f)
+      STDOUT.reopen(f)
+      STDERR.reopen(f)
+    } unless noclose
+
+    return 0
+  end
+end