Thanks, I'll get on this tomorrow morning. All else being equal, I
want to do as much as possible before forking so that errors can be
detected and reported visibly.

That leads me to option 2, calling event_reinit. If I can just go
ahead and call it safely regardless of the platform I'd prefer that.

Otherwise, I'll try moving the fork before event_init, then moving as
much as possible (probably just prot_replay_binlog) before the fork.

kr

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Godfrey <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I can confirm this problem is happening on my MBP running 10.5.6, and
> yun's solution does seems to fix it.
>
> Godfrey
>
> On Mar 8, 7:57 pm, Yun Huang Yong <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mar 7, 10:02 pm, Alex MacCaw <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm doing something like this:
>> > beanstalkd -l 0.0.0.0 -p 8002 -d
>> > And the process just disappears!
>> > If I don't'detachit it, it works.
>>
>> > Any ideas why?
>>
>> This is due to BSD's kqueue event queue not surviving across fork().
>> Quoting the man page (from my FreeBSD box, its the same on MacOSX):
>>
>>      The kqueue() system call creates a new kernel event queue and
>> returns a
>>      descriptor.  The queue is not inherited by a child created with
>> fork(2).
>>      However, if rfork(2) is called without the RFFDG flag, then the
>> descrip-
>>      tor table is shared, which will allow sharing of the kqueue
>> between two
>>      processes.
>>
>> There's a few solutions I can see to this:
>>
>> 1. daemonize() earlier, in my own testing I moved the "if (detach)
>> daemonize();" to just before event_init(), allowing all the beanstalkd
>> init stuff to execute as normal.
>>
>> 2. Preserve the event_base struct returned from event_init(), then
>> call event_reinit() as suggested by Niels Provos 
>> inhttp://monkeymail.org/archives/libevent-users/2007-November/001061.html
>>
>> 3. Use rfork() as suggested by the kqueue man page
>>
>> The solutions get more and more BSD specific as you go down the list
>> so Option 1. seems like the simplest solution since it keeps
>> beanstalkd's execution path fairly identical across platforms (one of
>> the confusing things about debugging this issue was why the "-d" fork
>> () would affect behaviour so drastically).  I don't think this has any
>> side effects on beanstalkd...
>>
>> yun
> >
>

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