Control: retitle -1 s-s-d: Race condition when finding pid and checking it's
still running
On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 01:28:52 +0100, Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
> > That's because those calls only apply to child processes which is not
> > the case with s-s-d --stop.
> There are alternative safe ways to d
> That's because those calls only apply to child processes which is not
> the case with s-s-d --stop.
There are alternative safe ways to detect it, like using ptrace or [1].
A cycle with kill(0) is not safe, another process with the same pid could be
started between two iterations.
> That behav
Hi!
On Sun, 2012-12-02 at 22:40:04 +0100, Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.16.9
> Severity: normal
> after inspecting start-stop-daemon's source, i couldn't find any wait/waitpid
> calls, and they should exist.
That's because those calls only apply to child processes which is
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.16.9
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
after inspecting start-stop-daemon's source, i couldn't find any wait/waitpid
calls, and they should exist.
Stopping a daemon usually consists in sending a message to the right pid, but
after that it would be better to do a waitpid s
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