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Stopping daemon via wrapper script can kill unrelated processes

Open hrenfroe opened this issue 9 years ago • 0 comments

In v1.2.2 and earlier (at least to 1.1.9), calling 'ruby mydaemon_control.rb stop' can kill one of the invoking user's other processes if the pidfile contains the pid of one of those processes. I was surprised by this when, after trying to stop a daemon that wasn't running, my IDE spontaneously closed.

The issue seems to be that the process is just sent a stop signal without checking to see if it's actually the daemon process we want to stop. (Pidfile cleanup works normally for me, but I don't bother to stop any running daemons before I shut down my dev box, so I tend to get stale pidfiles.) I've solved similar issues in the past by checking the process name (if the process is running) before taking any action on it.

hrenfroe avatar Apr 08 '15 16:04 hrenfroe