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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3] xenstored - postpone fork after initializati

To: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3] xenstored - postpone fork after initialization
From: Bastian Blank <bastian@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:27:05 +0100
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On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 09:15:55AM +0000, Keir Fraser wrote:
> In any case I think it's bad practice to daemonise after initialisation --

The daemons I just checked disagree with you. They want to provide
errors if the initialization fails, which is only possible before the
parent exits.

> Perhaps a better way to go would be to wait for the stdout pipe to be
> half-closed? Or to pass switch -P to xenstored and wait for the daemon pid
> to be written to the stdout pipe?

Well, find the real problem. In my tests it properly responds to the
clients.

Bastian

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