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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Copyright (c) 2012, 2013, 2014 Ilya Otyutskiy <ilya.otyutskiy@icloud.com>
+# Copyright 2020 The Matrix.org Foundation C.I.C.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import atexit
+import fcntl
+import logging
+import os
+import signal
+import sys
+
+
+def daemonize_process(pid_file: str, logger: logging.Logger, chdir: str = "/") -> None:
+ """daemonize the current process
+
+ This calls fork(), and has the main process exit. When it returns we will be
+ running in the child process.
+ """
+
+ # If pidfile already exists, we should read pid from there; to overwrite it, if
+ # locking will fail, because locking attempt somehow purges the file contents.
+ if os.path.isfile(pid_file):
+ with open(pid_file, "r") as pid_fh:
+ old_pid = pid_fh.read()
+
+ # Create a lockfile so that only one instance of this daemon is running at any time.
+ try:
+ lock_fh = open(pid_file, "w")
+ except IOError:
+ print("Unable to create the pidfile.")
+ sys.exit(1)
+
+ try:
+ # Try to get an exclusive lock on the file. This will fail if another process
+ # has the file locked.
+ fcntl.flock(lock_fh, fcntl.LOCK_EX | fcntl.LOCK_NB)
+ except IOError:
+ print("Unable to lock on the pidfile.")
+ # We need to overwrite the pidfile if we got here.
+ #
+ # XXX better to avoid overwriting it, surely. this looks racey as the pid file
+ # could be created between us trying to read it and us trying to lock it.
+ with open(pid_file, "w") as pid_fh:
+ pid_fh.write(old_pid)
+ sys.exit(1)
+
+ # Fork, creating a new process for the child.
+ process_id = os.fork()
+
+ if process_id != 0:
+ # parent process
+ sys.exit(0)
+
+ # This is the child process. Continue.
+
+ # Stop listening for signals that the parent process receives.
+ # This is done by getting a new process id.
+ # setpgrp() is an alternative to setsid().
+ # setsid puts the process in a new parent group and detaches its controlling
+ # terminal.
+
+ os.setsid()
+
+ # point stdin, stdout, stderr at /dev/null
+ devnull = "/dev/null"
+ if hasattr(os, "devnull"):
+ # Python has set os.devnull on this system, use it instead as it might be
+ # different than /dev/null.
+ devnull = os.devnull
+
+ devnull_fd = os.open(devnull, os.O_RDWR)
+ os.dup2(devnull_fd, 0)
+ os.dup2(devnull_fd, 1)
+ os.dup2(devnull_fd, 2)
+ os.close(devnull_fd)
+
+ # now that we have redirected stderr to /dev/null, any uncaught exceptions will
+ # get sent to /dev/null, so make sure we log them.
+ #
+ # (we don't normally expect reactor.run to raise any exceptions, but this will
+ # also catch any other uncaught exceptions before we get that far.)
+
+ def excepthook(type_, value, traceback):
+ logger.critical("Unhanded exception", exc_info=(type_, value, traceback))
+
+ sys.excepthook = excepthook
+
+ # Set umask to default to safe file permissions when running as a root daemon. 027
+ # is an octal number which we are typing as 0o27 for Python3 compatibility.
+ os.umask(0o27)
+
+ # Change to a known directory. If this isn't done, starting a daemon in a
+ # subdirectory that needs to be deleted results in "directory busy" errors.
+ os.chdir(chdir)
+
+ try:
+ lock_fh.write("%s" % (os.getpid()))
+ lock_fh.flush()
+ except IOError:
+ logger.error("Unable to write pid to the pidfile.")
+ print("Unable to write pid to the pidfile.")
+ sys.exit(1)
+
+ # write a log line on SIGTERM.
+ def sigterm(signum, frame):
+ logger.warning("Caught signal %s. Stopping daemon." % signum)
+ sys.exit(0)
+
+ signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, sigterm)
+
+ # Cleanup pid file at exit.
+ def exit():
+ logger.warning("Stopping daemon.")
+ os.remove(pid_file)
+ sys.exit(0)
+
+ atexit.register(exit)
+
+ logger.warning("Starting daemon.")
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