Race condition in start-stop-daemon when using the --background and --make-pidfile options
Bug #1036899 reported by
Nir Soffer
This bug affects 2 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dpkg (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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| dpkg (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
When using the --background and --make-pidfile options. The parent process may
exit before the child daemon process creates the pidfile and write the pid to
the pidfile. This may lead to failure of --stop or --start, not finding a
pidfile or finding an empty pidfile.
Revision history for this message
| Nir Soffer (nirs) wrote | #1 |
Revision history for this message
| Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote | #2 |
| tags: | added: patch |
Revision history for this message
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in dpkg (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in dpkg (Debian): | |
| status: | Unknown → New |
| Changed in dpkg (Debian): | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
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