From: Teemu Toivola <git@humdi.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 11:23:20 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: allow vnstatd to fork() when --daemon is used even when started by PID 1
X-Git-Tag: v2.4~11
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9ca9706243f61f08b8b37f14e649e44eca1923e7;p=vnstat

allow vnstatd to fork() when --daemon is used even when started by PID 1
---

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index af31b5b..cdc7689 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2.4 / <not released yet>
+
+ - Fixed
+   - Daemon didn't fork() even when requested to with --daemon when started
+     by PID 1 (issue seen at least in Docker containers)
+
+
 2.3 / 10-Jul-2019
 
  - Fixed
diff --git a/src/daemon.c b/src/daemon.c
index 6de2ce8..572fe24 100644
--- a/src/daemon.c
+++ b/src/daemon.c
@@ -16,10 +16,6 @@ void daemonize(void)
 	int i;
 	char str[10];
 
-	if (getppid() == 1) {
-		return; /* already a daemon */
-	}
-
 	i = (int)fork();
 
 	if (i < 0) { /* fork error */