[ClusterLabs] Antw: Re: issues with pacemaker daemonization

[Ulrich Windl]

>>> Ken Gaillot <kgaillot at redhat.com> schrieb am 09.11.2017 um 16:49 in Nachricht
<1510242560.5244.3.camel at redhat.com>:
> On Thu, 2017-11-09 at 15:59 +0530, ashutosh tiwari wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> We are observing that sometime pacemaker daemon gets the same
>> processgroup id as the process /script calling the "service pacemaker
>> start". 
>> While child processes of pacemaeker(cib/crmd/pengine) have there
>> processgroup id  same as there pid which is how things should be for
>> a daemon afaik.
>> 
>> Do we expect it to be managed by init.d (centos 6) or pacemaker
>> binary.
>> 
>> pacemaker version: pacemaker-1.1.14-8.el6_8.1.x86_64
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks and Regards,
>> Ashutosh Tiwari
> 
> When pacemakerd spawns a child (cib etc.), it calls setsid() in the
> child to start a new session, which will set the process group ID and
> session ID to the child's PID.
> 
> However it doesn't do anything similar for itself. Possibly it should.
> It's a longstanding to-do item to make pacemaker daemonize itself more
> "properly", but no one's had the time to address it.

Shouldn't be that hard when fork()ing anyway...

> -- 
> Ken Gaillot <kgaillot at redhat.com>
> 
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