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Diffstat (limited to 'synapse/util/daemonize.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | synapse/util/daemonize.py | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/util/daemonize.py b/synapse/util/daemonize.py index a7913fa1af..23393cf49b 100644 --- a/synapse/util/daemonize.py +++ b/synapse/util/daemonize.py @@ -60,8 +60,14 @@ def daemonize_process(pid_file: str, logger: logging.Logger, chdir: str = "/") - process_id = os.fork() if process_id != 0: - # parent process - sys.exit(0) + # parent process: exit. + + # we use os._exit to avoid running the atexit handlers. In particular, that + # means we don't flush the logs. This is important because if we are using + # a MemoryHandler, we could have logs buffered which are now buffered in both + # the main and the child process, so if we let the main process flush the logs, + # we'll get two copies. + os._exit(0) # This is the child process. Continue. |