--no-detach option?
Jos Backus
josb at cncdsl.com
Tue Nov 27 06:01:26 EST 2001
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 07:37:33PM +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
> I'll apply something like Jos's patch, with a modification to not
> create another bloody global variable but instead stick it in an
> options struct.
Good idea. Btw, Openssh also uses structs to pass options around.
> People who work with Apache should try the mostly-undocumented -X
> option, which tells it to not detach and also not fork on incoming
> connections. For debugging that's even more useful.
<off-topic>
Yes, however 2.0.28 still has a problem with this; see my message with subject
``HAVE_SETSID'' problem on the apache-dev list, which unfortunately has been
ignored so far. I notified the maintainer of the FreeBSD port and he told me
he has submitted a bugreport to the Apache folks. So hopefully this problem
will be fixed at some point. The remaining issue with ``-X NO_DETACH'' is that
it keeps httpd from creating its own process group, even though it _kills_ the
process group it is in. This is bad news because this process group contains
svscan/supervise/etc. So what is needed for httpd is another option that only
causes apr_proc_detach() to call setsid()|setpgrp()|..., not the other stuff.
All this is really ugly anyway; httpd should simply keep track of its
children's pid's (I bet it does already) and kill() those instead of a process
group it doesn't own.
</off-topic>
S[ai]mple --no-detach manpage patch:
Index: rsync.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/rsync/rsync.1,v
retrieving revision 1.95
diff -u -r1.95 rsync.1
--- rsync.1 14 Aug 2001 02:04:49 -0000 1.95
+++ rsync.1 26 Nov 2001 18:46:24 -0000
@@ -296,6 +296,7 @@
--include-from=FILE don\'t exclude patterns listed in FILE
--version print version number
--daemon run as a rsync daemon
+ --no-detach do not detach from the parent
--address bind to the specified address
--config=FILE specify alternate rsyncd\&.conf file
--port=PORT specify alternate rsyncd port number
@@ -714,6 +715,10 @@
config file (/etc/rsyncd\&.conf) on each connect made by a client and
respond to requests accordingly\&. See the rsyncd\&.conf(5) man page for more
details\&.
+.IP
+.IP "\fB--no-detach\fP"
+When running as a daemon, this option instructs rsync to not detach itself and
+become a background process\&.
.IP
.IP "\fB--address\fP"
By default rsync will bind to the wildcard address
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