| Summary: | Won't start correctly if parent closed stdin, stdout and stderr | ||
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| Product: | Apache httpd-2 | Reporter: | Tom Chan <tchan> |
| Component: | All | Assignee: | Apache HTTPD Bugs Mailing List <bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED LATER | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | Keywords: | MassUpdate |
| Priority: | P3 | ||
| Version: | 2.0.51 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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I have this test program which starts apache. The result is the child processes all die on an accept() call with errno 88 (ENOTSOCK). #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <syslog.h> int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { int i; char *arg; if (argc < 2) { printf("Must specify the path to the executable\n"); exit(1); } close(0); close(1); close(2); arg = malloc(strlen(argv[1]) + 1); strcpy(arg, argv[1]); for (i = 2; i < argc; i++) { arg = realloc(arg, strlen(arg) + strlen(argv[i]) + 2); strcat(arg, " "); strcat(arg, argv[i]); } syslog(LOG_ERR, "Calling system(%s)", arg); system(arg); exit(0); } If I comment out the close()'s (or open /dev/null in their place), the child processes will have no problems. I think the problem is with the order of these events: First, apache processes the config file with a LISTEN directive, opens the listen socket(s) and keeps the file descriptor(s) in its table. With no stdin, stdout, etc, the first listen socket will be fd 0 and so on. Then later, apr_proc_detach() in srclib/apr/threadproc/unix/procsup.c does freopen() on stdin, stdout and stderr which, regardless of whether fd 0, 1 and 2 are sockets or the std files, may wipe out listen sockets created earlier. Later, when accept() is called on the first listen socket, it has already been freopen() to a file, causing ENOTSOCK.