[distcc] Problem with zeroconf daemonization

[Ihar `Philips` Filipau]

Hi Benjamin!

About the magic constant.

What about getdtablesize() <
http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908775/xsh/getdtablesize.html> instead?

... but actually SUS advises to use the getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE) in new
applications. Interesting.

cu.

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Benjamin R. Haskell <distcc at benizi.com>wrote:

> 'paludis' is a package manager for Gentoo Linux (and Exherbo).  I sent
> an email to the 'paludis' users list about a problem with waiting for
> the distcc zeroconf daemon to stop.
>
> link:
> http://lists.pioto.org/pipermail/paludis-user/2010-January/001250.html
>
> I use 'distcc -j' to set up my MAKEOPTS variable.  The problem is with a
> wrapper used to prefix output for paludis with a tag indicating its
> origin.  When using '+zeroconf' in DISTCC_HOSTS, paludis waits 20
> seconds for distcc unconditionally, because distcc doesn't close the
> extra file descriptors that are open due to this output munging.  (So,
> 'paludis' waits on the grandchild daemon process that holds those fd's
> open.)
>
> I stated in that message that I feel like this is a problem with the way
> distcc daemonizes (and not with the way paludis wraps output).  I'm not
> as certain of that as I felt a couple hours ago, but it still feels
> accurate (that the daemonizing process has the responsibility to close
> any open fd's it's not going to use).
>
> If so, it seems like a pretty easy fix (to just close more fd's than 0,
> 1, and 2).  I can commit the attached patch if 1024 doesn't seem too
> magic-number-y (and I'm not spouting nonsense).
>
> Best,
> Ben
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