Idled and process in Start section
Carlos Velasco
carlos.velasco at nimastelecom.com
Wed Aug 5 18:40:01 EDT 2015
> After doing this I realized the idled process have parent pid of 1.
>
> root 17606 1 0 21:26 pts/9 00:00:00 idled
>
> This means that when master process is killed (SIGQUIT/SIGTERM) idled daemon is not killed along all process from cyrus imapd. So, stopping/starting cyrus let a lot of idled daemons running, until I realized the problem.
I have tracked the issue to this code in idled.c:
if (pid != 0) { /* parent */
exit(0);
}
Parent is exiting so child gets ppid 1.
Not sure why fork is needed in idled really.
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