SIGWINCH not working on second on-the-fly binary upgrade

Ilan Berkner ilan at time4learning.com
Tue Nov 15 16:40:48 UTC 2011


I mean 1.1.8.

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Ilan Berkner <ilan at time4learning.com>wrote:

> Nice find, I think I was experiencing a similar issue with upgrading on
> the fly from 1.1.7 to 1.1.9.
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost at raisama.net>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was trying to upgrade nginx from 1.0.9 to 1.0.10 on-the-fly, using
>> the process described on the wiki[1], but it looks like it is ignoring
>> the SIGWINCH signal I send to it.
>>
>> bender:~# ps ax -H | grep nginx
>> 31603 pts/2    S+     0:00             grep nginx
>> 32606 ?        S      0:00   nginx: master process
>> /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
>> 32607 ?        S      9:47     nginx: worker process
>> 31309 ?        S      0:00     nginx: master process
>> /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
>> 31310 ?        S      0:00       nginx: worker process
>> bender:~# kill -WINCH 32606 # 32606 is the 1.0.9 master process, 31309
>> is the 1.0.10 master process
>> bender:~# ps ax -H | grep nginx
>> 31605 pts/2    S+     0:00             grep nginx
>> 32606 ?        S      0:00   nginx: master process
>> /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
>> 32607 ?        S      9:47     nginx: worker process
>> 31309 ?        S      0:00     nginx: master process
>> /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
>> 31310 ?        S      0:00       nginx: worker process
>>
>> After a quick look at the code, it looks like this happened because
>> the 1.0.9 process I am running was started during a previous
>> 1.0.7->1.0.9 on-the-fly upgrade, and the 1.0.9 master process now
>> thinks it is not daemonized (ngx_daemonized is not set on
>> initialization if ngx_inherited is set).
>>
>> I have easily reproduced it by killing nginx completely, making a
>> on-the-fly 1.0.10->1.0.10 executable upgrade twice. On the first try,
>> SIGWINCH works; after the first upgrade, SIGWINCH stops working. Full
>> shell session showing the bug is pasted at the end of my message.
>>
>> [1]
>> http://wiki.nginx.org/CommandLine#Upgrading_To_a_New_Binary_On_The_Fly
>>
>> --
>> Eduardo
>>
>>
>> Shell session:
>>
>> bender:~# ps ax -H | grep nginx
>> 31678 pts/2    S+     0:00             script -t -a /tmp/nginx.script
>> 31679 pts/2    S+     0:00               script -t -a /tmp/nginx.script
>> 31684 pts/5    S+     0:00                   grep nginx
>> bender:~# /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
>> bender:~# ps ax -H | grep nginx
>> 31678 pts/2    S+     0:00             script -t -a /tmp/nginx.script
>> 31679 pts/2    S+     0:00               script -t -a /tmp/nginx.script
>> 31689 pts/5    S+     0:00                   grep nginx
>> 31686 ?        Ss     0:00   nginx: master process
>> /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
>> 31687 ?        S      0:00     nginx: worker process
>> bender:~# kill -USR2 31686
>> bender:~# ps ax -H | grep nginx
>> 31678 pts/2    S+     0:00             script -t -a /tmp/nginx.script
>> 31679 pts/2    S+     0:00               script -t -a /tmp/nginx.script
>> 31693 pts/5    S+     0:00                   grep nginx
>> 31686 ?        Ss     0:00   nginx: master process
>> /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
>> 31687 ?        S      0:00     nginx: worker process
>> 31690 ?        S      0:00     nginx: master process
>> /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
>> 31691 ?        S      0:00       nginx: worker process
>> bender:~# kill -WINCH 31686
>> bender:~# ps ax -H | grep nginx
>> 31678 pts/2    S+     0:00             script -t -a /tmp/nginx.script
>> 31679 pts/2    S+     0:00               script -t -a /tmp/nginx.script
>> 31695 pts/5    S+     0:00                   grep nginx
>> 31686 ?        Ss     0:00   nginx: master process
>> /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
>> 31690 ?        S      0:00     nginx: master process
>> /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
>> 31691 ?        S      0:00       nginx: worker process
>> bender:~# echo SIGWINCH worked on the first process
>> SIGWINCH worked on the first process
>> bender:~# kill -QUIT 31686
>> bender:~# ps ax -H | grep nginx
>> 31678 pts/2    S+     0:00             script -t -a /tmp/nginx.script
>> 31679 pts/2    S+     0:00               script -t -a /tmp/nginx.script
>> 31697 pts/5    S+     0:00                   grep nginx
>> 31690 ?        S      0:00   nginx: master process
>> /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
>> 31691 ?        S      0:00     nginx: worker process
>> bender:~# kill -USR2 31690
>> bender:~# ps ax -H | grep nginx
>> 31678 pts/2    S+     0:00             script -t -a /tmp/nginx.script
>> 31679 pts/2    S+     0:00               script -t -a /tmp/nginx.script
>> 31705 pts/5    S+     0:00                   grep nginx
>> 31690 ?        S      0:00   nginx: master process
>> /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
>> 31691 ?        S      0:00     nginx: worker process
>> 31702 ?        S      0:00     nginx: master process
>> /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
>> 31703 ?        S      0:00       nginx: worker process
>> bender:~# kill -WINCH 31690
>> bender:~# ps ax -H | grep nginx
>> 31678 pts/2    S+     0:00             script -t -a /tmp/nginx.script
>> 31679 pts/2    S+     0:00               script -t -a /tmp/nginx.script
>> 31709 pts/5    S+     0:00                   grep nginx
>> 31690 ?        S      0:00   nginx: master process
>> /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
>> 31691 ?        S      0:00     nginx: worker process
>> 31702 ?        S      0:00     nginx: master process
>> /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
>> 31703 ?        S      0:00       nginx: worker process
>> bender:~# kill -WINCH 31690
>> bender:~# ps ax -H | grep nginx
>> 31678 pts/2    S+     0:00             script -t -a /tmp/nginx.script
>> 31679 pts/2    S+     0:00               script -t -a /tmp/nginx.script
>> 31711 pts/5    S+     0:00                   grep nginx
>> 31690 ?        S      0:00   nginx: master process
>> /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
>> 31691 ?        S      0:00     nginx: worker process
>> 31702 ?        S      0:00     nginx: master process
>> /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
>> 31703 ?        S      0:00       nginx: worker process
>> bender:~# echo PID 31690 is ignoring SIGWINCH signals
>> PID 31690 is ignoring SIGWINCH signals
>> bender:~# kill -QUIT 31690
>> bender:~# ps ax -H | grep nginx
>> 31678 pts/2    S+     0:00             script -t -a /tmp/nginx.script
>> 31679 pts/2    S+     0:00               script -t -a /tmp/nginx.script
>> 31713 pts/5    S+     0:00                   grep nginx
>> 31702 ?        S      0:00   nginx: master process
>> /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
>> 31703 ?        S      0:00     nginx: worker process
>>
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Ilan Berkner
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