I am using Apache Tomcat 7.0.56. I think that is the latest. Regards,
Anilkumar Ambati 4205 S Miami Blvd WebSphere Virtual Enterprise Development Durham, 27703-9141 Phone: +1-919-254-6152 USA Mobile: +1-919-434-5674 e-mail: aamb...@us.ibm.com "You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish." -Richard Feynman (1918-1988) From: Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> To: Commons Users List <user@commons.apache.org>, Date: 11/11/2014 10:18 AM Subject: Re: [daemon] Unable to read tomcat.pid file created by Tomcat process So which version of [daemon] are you using? Can you try the latest and greatest. It might not matter but it'll make debugging easier for anyone on this ML. Gary On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Anil Ambati <aamb...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > I was asked to post this question in this forum. > > We have a requirement to read the PID file created by the Tomcat server > process on Windows, but we are not able to using RandomAccessFile or > FileInputStream because the file seems to be > locked by the Tomcat process. > > Why does the Tomcat server keep the PID file locked, preventing other > processes to even read the file? Is there a work around or solution for > this problem? > > > Christopher Schultz wrote this in Tomcat user forum: > ---------------------------------------------------- > I took a quick look, and it looks like the PID file is being created > with a file option FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE which causes the OS to > delete the file off the disk when all file handles are closed. So, > closing the file handle will result in the PID file being deleted. > > This option was added because the PID file wasn't being removed if the > service crashed, which kept the service from restarting (oops). > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DAEMON-183 > > It seems like an option to control what happens on startup when the > PID file already exists would be a good idea. You'll have to ask the > procrun folks about what the options are. It seems reasonable to be > able to read the PID file, since not being able to read it makes it > kind of useless other than as a lock-file (i.e. its contents are > irrelevant). > > > Regards, > ------------------------------ > *Anilkumar Ambati* 4205 S Miami Blvd > WebSphere Virtual Enterprise Development Durham, 27703-9141 Phone: > +1-919-254-6152 USA Mobile: +1-919-434-5674 e-mail: aamb...@us.ibm.com > > ------------------------------ > "You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you > ought to accomplish." -Richard Feynman (1918-1988) > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
