# Mark Huang <mlhuang@cs.princeton.edu>
# Copyright (C) 2006 The Trustees of Princeton University
#
-# $Id: functions,v 1.7 2007/01/19 17:12:45 mlhuang Exp $
+# $Id$
#
export PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
[ -n "${pid:-}" -a -z "${force:-}" ] && return
# And start it up.
- (exec -a plc_${base} $*)
+ # Thierry -- June 18 2007
+ # when invoking, e.g. service plc start httpd from an ssh connection
+ # ssh stupidly hangs when everything is done
+ # it turns out the forked ssh daemon exhibits the following stack at that point
+ # (gdb) where
+ # #0 0x001d6402 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
+ # #1 0x003c2e7d in ___newselect_nocancel () from /lib/libc.so.6
+ # #2 0x004387b4 in main () from /usr/sbin/sshd
+ # So I figured the various file descriptors used were not properly closed
+ (exec 3>&- 4>&- ; exec -a plc_${base} $*)
ret=$?
if [ -f /var/run/${base}.pid ] ; then
# Make copies of stdout and stderr. The plc initscript redirects
# stdout and stderr to a logfile if -v is not specified.
-[ ! -e /dev/fd/3 ] && exec 3>&1
-[ ! -e /dev/fd/4 ] && exec 4>&2
+[ ! -e /proc/self/fd/3 ] && exec 3>&1
+[ ! -e /proc/self/fd/4 ] && exec 4>&2