Commit b0fa94d52a26cde776e566bb04c809b3b9f18de4
2013-05-30T12:00:17
Perform execv in a forked child process, waiting on the original to exit to allow resources to be released.
diff --git a/cgminer.c b/cgminer.c
index 768dd8e..8451f69 100644
--- a/cgminer.c
+++ b/cgminer.c
@@ -2889,6 +2889,9 @@ static void clean_up(void);
void app_restart(void)
{
+ pid_t parent, child;
+ int status;
+
applog(LOG_WARNING, "Attempting to restart %s", packagename);
__kill_work();
@@ -2901,7 +2904,15 @@ void app_restart(void)
}
#endif
+ parent = getpid();
+ child = fork();
+ if (child) {
+ applog(LOG_WARNING, "Shutting down original process");
+ exit(0);
+ }
+ waitpid(parent, &status, 0);
execv(initial_args[0], (EXECV_2ND_ARG_TYPE)initial_args);
+ /* We shouldn't get here */
applog(LOG_WARNING, "Failed to restart application");
}