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Detach Xend from terminal, courtesy of Horms <horms@verge.net.au>.
# HG changeset patch
# User emellor@leeni.uk.xensource.com
# Node ID efc71a3e9f6f7487ad349677369d6221a06ead3f
# Parent 52f214d983fb3edf2e265984ed9fe103dd7d2440
Detach Xend from terminal, courtesy of Horms <horms@verge.net.au>.

* For setsid to effectively detach a process from the terminal,
the following needs to occur:

fork () Return control to the shell
setsid () New session with no controlling terminal
fork () The session leader (parent) exits and thus
the resulting child process can never regain the terminal

This patch adds the second fork

* The call to self.daemonize(), which now forks, is moved to
run before self.tracing(), as now that it actually disconnects
from the terminal, and thus the prevailing process, the trace
loses the processes created in self.run().

Signed-off-by: Ewan Mellor <ewan@xensource.com>

diff -r 52f214d983fb -r efc71a3e9f6f tools/python/xen/xend/server/SrvDaemon.py
--- a/tools/python/xen/xend/server/SrvDaemon.py Thu Dec 8 16:11:48 2005
+++ b/tools/python/xen/xend/server/SrvDaemon.py Thu Dec 8 16:17:53 2005
@@ -123,9 +123,18 @@

def daemonize(self):
if not XEND_DAEMONIZE: return
+
# Detach from TTY.
+
+ # Become the group leader (already a child process)
os.setsid()

+ # Fork, this allows the group leader to exit,
+ # which means the child can never again regain control of the
+ # terminal
+ if self.fork_pid(XEND_PID_FILE):
+ self.exit()
+
# Detach from standard file descriptors, and redirect them to
# /dev/null or the log as appropriate.
os.close(0)
@@ -164,7 +173,7 @@
# we can avoid a race condition during startup

r,w = os.pipe()
- if self.fork_pid(XEND_PID_FILE):
+ if os.fork():
os.close(w)
r = os.fdopen(r, 'r')
try:
@@ -178,6 +187,7 @@
else:
os.close(r)
# Child
+ self.daemonize()
self.tracing(trace)
self.run(os.fdopen(w, 'w'))

@@ -274,7 +284,6 @@

relocate.listenRelocation()
servers = SrvServer.create()
- self.daemonize()
servers.start(status)
except Exception, ex:
print >>sys.stderr, 'Exception starting xend:', ex

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