#include "current-process.hh" #include "logging.hh" namespace nix { void commonChildInit() { logger = makeSimpleLogger(); const static std::string pathNullDevice = "/dev/null"; restoreProcessContext(false); /* Put the child in a separate session (and thus a separate process group) so that it has no controlling terminal (meaning that e.g. ssh cannot open /dev/tty) and it doesn't receive terminal signals. */ if (setsid() == -1) throw SysError("creating a new session"); /* Dup stderr to stdout. */ if (dup2(STDERR_FILENO, STDOUT_FILENO) == -1) throw SysError("cannot dup stderr into stdout"); /* Reroute stdin to /dev/null. */ int fdDevNull = open(pathNullDevice.c_str(), O_RDWR); if (fdDevNull == -1) throw SysError("cannot open '%1%'", pathNullDevice); if (dup2(fdDevNull, STDIN_FILENO) == -1) throw SysError("cannot dup null device into stdin"); close(fdDevNull); } }