Comment 2 for bug 817032

Hmm, interesting. This code was copied from Swift. You can assign this
to me, Jason, and I'll take care of it. Swift has updated a lot of
that code in the past year or so; I'll check out clayg's new hotness.

-jay

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Jason Kölker <email address hidden> wrote:
> 111     def launch(ini_file, pid_file):
> 112         args = [server, ini_file]
> 113         print 'Starting %s with %s' % (server, ini_file)
> 114
> 115         pid = os.fork()
> 116         if pid == 0:
> 117             os.setsid()
> 118             with open(os.devnull, 'r+b') as nullfile:
> 119                 for desc in (0, 1, 2):  # close stdio
> 120                     try:
> 121                         os.dup2(nullfile.fileno(), desc)
> 122                     except OSError:
> 123                         pass
> 124             try:
> 125                 os.execlp('%s' % server, server, ini_file)
> 126             except OSError, e:
> 127                 sys.exit('unable to launch %s. Got error: %s'
> 128                          % (server, str(e)))
> 129             sys.exit(0)
> 130         else:
> 131             write_pid_file(pid_file, pid)
>
> Since it forks, the parent exits successfully and the exception that
> gets caught happens in the child.
>
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>  glance-control exits with 0 when glance-<server> script is not found
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