this patch would be really useful for daemons like udev that does not
create the pidfile (bugs #791944 and #908796)
ciao!
Hi,
On 02/14/2011 08:00 AM, Guillem Jover wrote:
This feature could be used in two scenarios:
1) the program forks itself but it cannot output its PID into a file
Why? If it's because it does not have such option, then the correct
fix is to add it, it should not amount to more than
Hi!
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 17:58:18 +0100, Peter Gyongyosi wrote:
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.15.5.6ubuntu4.3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
the attached patch adds the functionality to start-stop-daemon that makes
it capable of tracking and detecting the PID of programs it starts and
which
Hi,
On 01/21/2011 07:18 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
+start_trace(pid_t pid)
+{
+wait(NULL);
+
+int retries;
+const int max_retries = 10;
+
+for (retries = 0; retries max_retries; ++retries) {
+if (ptrace (PTRACE_SETOPTIONS, pid, NULL,
+
Hi again,
Peter Gyongyosi wrote:
But I do not understand your other remark: I am indeeed using TRACEME,
all other ptrace calls are just to limit the tracing to only forks and
to get the PID we need.
Sorry, that was just my sloppiness. Perhaps renaming the function,
along the lines of
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.15.5.6ubuntu4.3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi,
the attached patch adds the functionality to start-stop-daemon that makes it
capable
of tracking and detecting the PID of programs it starts and which fork
themselves. The
manpage entries for the new arguments
Hi,
First of all, thanks for sending this.
Peter Gyongyosi wrote:
--- a/utils/start-stop-daemon.c
+++ b/utils/start-stop-daemon.c
[...]
@@ -361,6 +369,152 @@ pid_list_free(struct pid_list **list)
[...]
+static void
+start_trace(pid_t pid)
+{
+ wait(NULL);
+
+ int retries;
+
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