[Pkg-haproxy-maintainers] Bug#804530: Bug#804530: haproxy: Ensure stop action works on pre-systemd versions of Debian (and Ubuntu)

[Vincent Bernat]

 ❦  9 novembre 2015 10:42 GMT, James Page <james.page at ubuntu.com> :

>     ❦ 9 novembre 2015 09:47 GMT, James Page <james.page at ubuntu.com> :
>     
>     > In Ubuntu, the attached patch was applied to achieve the
>     following:
>     >
>     > [ Jorge Niedbalski ]
>     > * debian/haproxy.init:
>     > + Pass the pidfile to the --pidfile argument instead of the PID
>     > number, easing backports to pre-systemd versions of Ubuntu
>     > and Debian (LP: #1477198).
>     >
>     > On older Ubuntu versions (pre systemd), the stop action was not
>     > working correctly in the init script; this patch resolves that
>     > issue.
>     
>     I don't think this is compatible with multiple HAProxy processes
>     (nbproc > 1). See how we do that when start-stop-daemon doesn't
>     support --pid:
>     
>
> Hmm - so start-stop-daemon will generate multiple pids into the
> pidfile when nbproc > 1?

No, haproxy will write multiple PID to the pidfile when nbproc > 1 (in
haproxy.cfg). I don't think that start-stop-daemon is able to handle
multiple PID in pidfile, hence the loop.
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