wish: Extend the start-stop-daemon program with --killpg option
Bug #1297148 reported by
Peder Chr. Nørgaard
This bug affects 1 person
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dpkg (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
I have a daemon that is not able to intercept a killing signal and do the necessary clean up, by killing its own child processes.
Rather than coding a pretty complicated solution to that problem, I found it much easier to modify the start-stop-daemon program with a new option, --killpg. I attach the patch, it is tested and in operation now and works just fine. I hope that you will consider making this a part of future releases; it is a small change that does a really useful thing; I thought that other people than myself could profit from it.
best regards
Peder Chr. Nørgaard
The patch is made against trusty tahr beta 1 dpkg, version 1.17.5ubuntu5
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