Re: The Shepherd on Fibers

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Attila Lendvai <attila@lendvai.name> skribis:

> my first ever service has non-trivial work to do in the start GEXP,
> and unsurprisingly, it has often ended up throwing an exception while
> i subled along my learning curve. it's not caught by shepherd right
> around the call to the start GEXP, and reaches a handler up higher
> that ends up deleting the socket (and IIRC skipping the start of rest
> of the services).

Ah ha!  I guess that can happen if the service is started right from the
config file; it cannot happen if the service is started via ‘herd start’
(because all the ‘start’ exceptions are caught and reported early), or
if it’s started from the config file but in a separate fiber with
‘start-in-the-background’.

Ludo’.