Re: Socket (demand) based launchd daemons
Re: Socket (demand) based launchd daemons
- Subject: Re: Socket (demand) based launchd daemons
- From: Perry Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:26:10 -0600
Thanks.
I saw that but was afraid it would respawn the server with each http
request. The socket will be used only briefly but the server is going
to keep running. Really... this piece of code isn't set up to be
launched in this manner. Maybe I should just keep what I have and
launch it at boot time and be happy.
But, if I continue on: I'm looking at launch.h and reading. I was
toying with an idea of writing a program, call it "get_sockets". The
script would run get_sockets and get_sockets would print on stdout
something that could be easily parsed. Like the key for each socket
and then the fd number for that key. I'm making great leaps of
assumptions here on what the launch_data is going to look like so I
may be way off base.
On Jan 23, 2008, at 10:57 AM, Dave Zarzycki wrote:
Given that you're using a scripting language, your best option is to
leverage launchd's inetd compatibility. By doing so, you'll get
automatic concurrency (at the cost of inefficiency) and implicit
compatibility with other operating systems that supply [x]inetd.
Assuming that your program is TCP based, then this should be
sufficient:
<key>Sockets</key>
<dict>
<key>Listeners</key>
<dict>
<key>SockServiceName</key>
<integer>12345</integer>
</dict>
</dict>
<key>inetdCompatibility</key>
<dict>
<key>Wait</key>
<false/>
</dict>
Once you make that change, you'll find the socket on stdin/stdout/
stderr at launch.
davez
On Jan 23, 2008, at 8:17 AM, Perry Smith wrote:
This question has come up for me before and I suspect it will
again. The example this time is the web "server" that serves the
Ruby "rdoc" documentation. You start it with "gem server". It has
a few options like which port which has a default.
I have a launchd plist file that simply starts this up at boot.
But, mostly so I can show off to my friends (if I had any :-), I'd
like to start it up the first time I browse to that port.
The man page for launchd.plist says that the process has to "check
in" using the launch(3) API. "man 3 launch" gives me back
nothing. So I am lost as to what API's there are. But, even if I
could find them, thats really just half the problem. The real
problem is I'm looking for a way to transfer the file descriptor
from launchd to the gem server using a script. (I can't modify gem
just to do this -- well, I suppose I could but that only defers the
problem until next time this comes up).
So, how is this done? Or... if I need to write some code, thats
fine. But, where do I start?
Thank you,
Perry Smith
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