Errors are hidden in daemonized mode

[smellsblue]

If there is an error on startup, it is sometimes hidden when running in daemonized mode, while it will be visible running in non-daemonized mode.

Example: write a plugin against the plugins branch, have the initialization throw an error, then run in both daemonized mode and non-daemonized mode.

[pcarranza]

Kinda hard to fix. A daemonized process losses access to stdout and stderr by design. If we are writing the errors to the log, that's pretty much as far as we can go.

[smellsblue]

I wonder if there is some top level hook for exceptions, similar to at_exit... we might be able to use that if there is, or maybe the best we can do is wrap around plugin initialization with a begin/rescue

[pcarranza]

That's OK and something that makes sense. But still you don't have stdout/stderr when daemonized..

I would vote for at_exit and then checking of there is an error raised.

[smellsblue]

Yeah, I meant we should log any error we detect (the problem I had was I kept looking at the log and not seeing any error, yet my gemstash server wasn't working)

[pcarranza]

Right, then yes. at_exit