/* Copyright 2017 Maxwell Anselm. * * 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 3 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, see . */ #include #include #include int main(int argc, char** argv) { // need a command to run if (argc <= 1) return 1; // fork to disown the child pid_t child; if (child = fork()) { if (child == -1) { perror("fork"); return 1; } printf("%ld\n", (long)child); return 0; } // silence output if (!freopen("/dev/null", "w", stdout)) fprintf(stdout, "Failed to silence stdout\n"); if (!freopen("/dev/null", "w", stderr)) fprintf(stderr, "Failed to silence stderr\n"); // run the command execvp(argv[1], argv + 1); // if execvp returns, it's an error if (freopen("/dev/tty", "w", stderr)) perror(argv[0]); return 1; }