On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 at 10:45, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:

> Linux has an idea of process name that is visible in /proc/$pid/comm.  This
> is "ovs-vswitchd" for a freshly started ovs-vswitchd process.  When the
> monitor code restarted a crash child, it changed it to the empty string.
> This confused the daemon_is_running check in ovs-lib.in, which checks
> comm.  This commit fixes the problem by setting the program name as comm
> in newly restarted children.
>
> VMware-BZ: #2191724
> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
>

Tested it. Looks right
Acked-by: Gurucharan Shetty <[email protected]>

(But I do see a bunch of unit test failures in branch-2.9 which is
unrelated to this fix.)


> ---
>  lib/daemon-unix.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/daemon-unix.c b/lib/daemon-unix.c
> index 3ad1c62889cf..6169763c294c 100644
> --- a/lib/daemon-unix.c
> +++ b/lib/daemon-unix.c
> @@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ monitor_daemon(pid_t daemon_pid)
>
>      /* Running in new daemon process. */
>      ovs_cmdl_proctitle_restore();
> -    set_subprogram_name("");
> +    set_subprogram_name(program_name);
>  }
>
>  /* If daemonization is configured, then starts daemonization, by forking
> and
> --
> 2.16.1
>
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