Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3] xenstored - postpone fork after initialization

[Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

By the way, were the xend startup changes required at all? getstatusoutput()
waits for the child process to exit, doesn't it?

 -- Keir

On 27/3/08 11:27, "Bastian Blank" <bastian@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 09:15:55AM +0000, Keir Fraser wrote:
>> In any case I think it's bad practice to daemonise after initialisation --
> 
> The daemons I just checked disagree with you. They want to provide
> errors if the initialization fails, which is only possible before the
> parent exits.
> 
>> Perhaps a better way to go would be to wait for the stdout pipe to be
>> half-closed? Or to pass switch -P to xenstored and wait for the daemon pid
>> to be written to the stdout pipe?
> 
> Well, find the real problem. In my tests it properly responds to the
> clients.
> 
> Bastian



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