sane way of cleaning up stale unix sockets?

[Александр Поволоцкий]

Hello

Why nxt_listen_socket_create is not used to create sockets other than 
control? Any positive reason or "still no time to rewrite?"

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Alex

On 22.12.2020 17:40, Valentin V. Bartenev wrote:
> Actually we thought about a connection test with the algorithm of atomic
> creation of such sockets, that was implemented earlier this year for the
> control socket: https://hg.nginx.org/unit/rev/0a8840921fd0
>
> --
> Valentin
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, 22 December 2020 17:14:15 MSK Александр Поволоцкий wrote:
>> Maybe just https://gavv.github.io/articles/unix-socket-reuse/ ?
>>
>> On 22.12.2020 17:12, Valentin V. Bartenev wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 19 December 2020 18:48:02 MSK Александр Поволоцкий wrote:
>>>> Hello
>>>>
>>>> Sometimes unitd leaves behind orphaned unix sockets (well, just
>>>> configure it to use some and kill -9!)
>>>>
>>>> On next start, unitd fails to start because of existing sockets.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a sane way to clean up them on start? keeping separate list of
>>>> sockets-to-remove is a clear way to insainty.
>>> [..]
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Indeed, this is a problem.  That's the reason why the usage of unix sockets
>>> in listeners is still undocumented.
>>>
>>> It's not so easy to fix, because we need to avoid the situation when the socket
>>> is used by some other processes and avoid any possible race conditions
>>> here.
>>>
>>> Actually, until it will be fixed I have no better idea than put them all in the
>>> same dedicated directory and just clean up everything in it each restart.
>>>
>>>     wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev
>>>
>>>
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