Comment 12 for bug 610863
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| Andrew Edmunds (andrew-edmunds) wrote Re: Race condition in statd.conf | #12 |
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The above patch adds a post-start script that loops until the statd parent process has exited. This is the best workaround that I can think of. It doesn't seem possible to just wait() for the process with the current implementation of upstart's "expect fork" feature.
Suggestion for a better approach: The start script should be allowed to tell upstart the PID of the process that upstart should supervise. The information could be sent (for example) via a pipe, or the traditional /var/run/<job>.pid file. Then the knowledge of how to correctly start a particular daemon could be entirely in the start script where it belongs, rather than part of it being coded into upstart. This would allow the "expect fork" and "expect daemon" features to go away.