[CASSANDRA-14829] Make stop-server.bat wait for Cassandra to terminate

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.11.4, 4.0-alpha1, 4.0
• Component/s: Packaging
• Labels: easyfix windows

Environment

Windows 10

• Assignee: Georg Dietrich
• Reporter: Georg Dietrich

Authors

Georg Dietrich

Reviewers

Dinesh Joshi

• Created: 17/Oct/18 12:14
• Updated: 16/Mar/22 12:04
• Resolved: 03/Dec/18 13:17

Description

While administering a single node Cassandra on Windows, I noticed that the stop-server.bat script returns before the cassandra process has actually terminated. For use cases like creating a script "shut down & create backup of data directory without having to worry about open files, then restart", it would be good to make stop-server.bat wait for Cassandra to terminate.

All that is needed for that is to change in apache-cassandra-3.11.3\bin\stop-server.bat "start /B powershell /file ..." to "start /WAIT /B powershell /file ..." (additional /WAIT parameter).

Does this sound reasonable?

Here is the pull request: https://github.com/apache/cassandra/pull/287