Run RepoFS as a background process

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Run RepoFS as a background process

vitsalis opened this issue 7 years ago · comments

RepoFS is currently a running process meaning that if the user running the process logs out the repository is unmounted.

Diomidis Spinellis · Answer 1 · Tue Jan 30 2018 21:44:04 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

This can currently be solved with nohup(1) and the shell's &. However, background operation should be the default if RepoFS is provided in a command such as mount_repofs.

Vitalis Salis · Answer 2 · Tue Jan 30 2018 23:00:44 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I agree. Currently, if RepoFS is installed via setup.py it adds a command repofs to the shell that's similar to running RepoFS manually.

I suggest we add a parameter to the main function, that differentiates between running as a command line tool and running manually as a python script (for development purposes).

Diomidis Spinellis · Answer 3 · Tue Jan 30 2018 23:15:50 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I think you can just look at argv[0]. But daemon commands typically provide -d flag which negates the auto-backgrounding and enables further debugging message logging.

Vitalis Salis · Answer 4 · Fri Mar 02 2018 21:57:31 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Enabled running in the background in 4d9f6c7

We can add support for debugging messages in another issue.