Re: [gentoo-proxy-maint] Checking before reinventing wheel: init script not waiting for child processes

[Sam Jorna]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 04:02:12PM -0400, Philippe Chaintreuil wrote:
> Hello,
>
>      I'm looking at a bug [1] that is complaining that an init script
> doesn't wait for the child processes of the daemon to exit before it
> returns.
>
>      I just wanted to make sure that there's not a standard/existing
> methodology that does this before I start adding custom code.
>      I guess I should also make sure that this isn't something the
> hive-mind thinks should be punted upstream.  (I've looked at the source
> code, and the interrupt handler just loops through the child pids and
> exits, it doesn't wait on the pids.)

I haven't looked too closely at the code, but does spamd keep track of its own
children? As in, does the master process wait until the child processes are
terminated before terminating itself? If so, then perhaps you could force the
daemon into the foreground and have start-stop-daemon background it itself.

Cheers;
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Sam Jorna
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