Commit ff924dbc authored by Pavlov Konstantin's avatar Pavlov Konstantin

support for creating pid files when going daemon mode.

Someone should really review it as it is my first experience in C.
parent d17c2e5f
......@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ struct vlc_t
char * psz_homedir; /* configuration directory */
char * psz_userdir; /* user's home directory */
char * psz_configfile; /* location of config file */
char * psz_pidfile;
/* Fast memcpy plugin used */
module_t * p_memcpy_module;
......
......@@ -419,6 +419,32 @@ int VLC_Init( int i_object, int i_argc, char *ppsz_argv[] )
p_vlc->p_libvlc->b_daemon = VLC_TRUE;
/* lets check if we need to write the pidfile */
p_vlc->psz_pidfile = config_GetPsz( p_vlc, "pidfile" );
msg_Dbg( p_vlc, "p_vlc->psz_pidfile is %s", p_vlc->psz_pidfile );
if( p_vlc->psz_pidfile != NULL )
{
pid_t i_pid;
FILE *pidfile;
i_pid = getpid();
msg_Dbg( p_vlc, "our PID is %d, writing it to %s", i_pid, p_vlc->psz_pidfile );
pidfile = utf8_fopen( p_vlc->psz_pidfile,"w" );
if( pidfile != NULL )
{
utf8_fprintf( pidfile, "%d", (int)i_pid );
fclose( pidfile );
}
else
{
msg_Err( p_vlc, "Cannot open pid file for writing: %s, error: %s", p_vlc->psz_pidfile, strerror(errno) );
}
}
#else
pid_t i_pid;
......
......@@ -835,6 +835,10 @@ static char *ppsz_clock_descriptions[] =
#define DAEMON_LONGTEXT N_( \
"Runs VLC as a background daemon process.")
#define PIDFILE_TEXT N_("Write process id to file")
#define PIDFILE_LONGTEXT N_( \
"Writes proccess id into specified file.")
#define FILE_LOG_TEXT N_( "Log to file" )
#define FILE_LOG_LONGTEXT N_( \
"Log all VLC messages to a text file." )
......@@ -1591,6 +1595,9 @@ vlc_module_begin();
#if !defined(WIN32)
add_bool( "daemon", 0, NULL, DAEMON_TEXT, DAEMON_LONGTEXT, VLC_TRUE );
change_short('d');
add_string( "pidfile", NULL, NULL, PIDFILE_TEXT, PIDFILE_LONGTEXT,
VLC_FALSE );
#endif
add_bool( "file-logging", VLC_FALSE, NULL, FILE_LOG_TEXT, FILE_LOG_LONGTEXT,
......
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