[TS-755] Should traffic_manager really start a new session?

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.1

Environment

Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, all environments with upstart)

• Assignee: Igor Galić
• Reporter: Igor Galić
• Created: 26/Apr/11 12:50
• Updated: 19/Aug/11 01:19
• Resolved: 29/Apr/11 21:00

Description

Unlike Solaris' SMF, which uses contract(4)s to track processes and their children, upstart simply uses sessions.
When starting traffic_cop, this creates a new session, however, traffic_manager does the same.

Through the new setsid(), upstart looses track of these children.
When trying to stop, it only stops traffic_cop, leaving the rest of the system intact, albeit unsupervised.