On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 05:38:47PM -0700, Ansis Atteka wrote:
>> The child process (the one being monitored) could die before it was able
>> to call fork_notify_startup() function. If such situation arises, then
>> parent process (the one monitoring child process) would also terminate
>> with a fatal log message:
>>
>> ...|EMER|fork child died before signaling startup (killed (...))
>>
>> This patch changes that behavior by always restarting child process
>> if it was able to start up at least once in the past. However, if
>> child was not able to start up even once, then the monitor process
>> would still terminate, because that would most likely indicate a
>> persistent programming or system error.
>>
>> To reproduce use following script:
>>
>> while : ; do kill -SIGSEGV `cat /var/run/openvswitch/ovs-vswitchd.pid`; done
>>
>> Signed-Off-By: Ansis Atteka <aatt...@nicira.com>
>> VMware-BZ: 1273550
>
> Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>
Thanks for review. I pushed this patch to the master branch.
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