daemon-mode: add sleep() loop to prevent defunct child process, call setsid() in child

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/init.cpp b/init.cpp
index 8e5812669..c0b03c877 100644
--- a/init.cpp
+++ b/init.cpp
@@ -236,6 +236,10 @@ bool AppInit2(int argc, char* argv[])
         }
         if (pid > 0)
             return true;
+
+        pid_t sid = setsid();
+        if (sid < 0)
+            fprintf(stderr, "Error: setsid() returned %d errno %d\n", sid, errno);
     }
 #endif
 
@@ -466,6 +470,10 @@ bool AppInit2(int argc, char* argv[])
     if (fFirstRun)
         SetStartOnSystemStartup(true);
 #endif
+    
+    if (fDaemon)
+        while (!fShutdown)
+            Sleep(5000);
 
     return true;
 }