[Bug 1297148] [NEW] wish: Extend the start-stop-daemon program with --killpg option

[Peder Chr. Nørgaard]

Public bug reported:

I have a daemon that is not able to intercept a killing signal and do
the necessary clean up, by killing its own child processes.

Rather than coding a pretty complicated solution to that problem, I
found it much easier to modify the start-stop-daemon program with a new
option, --killpg.  I attach the patch, it is tested and in operation now
and works just fine.  I hope that you will consider making this a part
of future releases; it is a small change that does a really useful
thing;  I thought that other people than myself could profit from it.

best regards

Peder Chr. Nørgaard


The patch is made against trusty tahr beta 1 dpkg, version 1.17.5ubuntu5

** Affects: dpkg (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: killpg start-stop-daemon

** Patch added: "Patch to add --killpg option to start-stop-daemon program"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1297148/+attachment/4042260/+files/stop-start.patch

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Title:
  wish:  Extend the start-stop-daemon program with --killpg option

Status in “dpkg” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I have a daemon that is not able to intercept a killing signal and do
  the necessary clean up, by killing its own child processes.

  Rather than coding a pretty complicated solution to that problem, I
  found it much easier to modify the start-stop-daemon program with a
  new option, --killpg.  I attach the patch, it is tested and in
  operation now and works just fine.  I hope that you will consider
  making this a part of future releases; it is a small change that does
  a really useful thing;  I thought that other people than myself could
  profit from it.

  best regards

  Peder Chr. Nørgaard

  
  The patch is made against trusty tahr beta 1 dpkg, version 1.17.5ubuntu5

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