Changeset 19296 in vbox for trunk/src/VBox/Main

Timestamp:

May 1, 2009 4:56:44 PM (16 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

Message:

Main/FreeBSD: Use the same approach as on Darwin for daemonizing VBoxSVC. The fork approach doesn not work. The second child fails for some unknown reason when initializing XPCOM and the debugger or strace do not contain any information

File:

• trunk/src/VBox/Main/xpcom/server.cpp (modified) (5 diffs)

trunk/src/VBox/Main/xpcom/server.cpp

@@ -772 +772 @@
     {
         { "automate",       no_argument,        NULL, 'a' },
-#ifdef RT_OS_DARWIN
+# if defined(RT_OS_DARWIN) || defined(RT_OS_FREEBSD)
         { "auto-shutdown",  no_argument,        NULL, 'A' },
 #endif
         { "daemonize",      no_argument,        NULL, 'd' },
         { "pidfile",        required_argument,  NULL, 'p' },
-#ifdef RT_OS_DARWIN
+# if defined(RT_OS_DARWIN) || defined(RT_OS_FREEBSD)
         { "pipe",           required_argument,  NULL, 'P' },
 #endif
@@ -806 +806 @@
             }
 
-#ifdef RT_OS_DARWIN
+# if defined(RT_OS_DARWIN) || defined(RT_OS_FREEBSD)
             /* Used together with '-P', see below. Internal use only. */
             case 'A':
@@ -827 +827 @@
             }
 
-#ifdef RT_OS_DARWIN
+# if defined(RT_OS_DARWIN) || defined(RT_OS_FREEBSD)
             /* we need to exec on darwin, this is just an internal
              * hack for passing the pipe fd along to the final child. */
@@ -933 +933 @@
         close(daemon_pipe_fds[0]);
 
-# ifdef RT_OS_DARWIN
+# if defined(RT_OS_DARWIN) || defined(RT_OS_FREEBSD)
         /*
          * On leopard we're no longer allowed to use some of the core API's
@@ -939 +939 @@
          * So, we'll have to execv VBoxSVC once again and hand it the pipe
          * and all other relevant options.
+         *
+         * On FreeBSD the fork approach doesn't work. The child fails
+         * during initialization of XPCOM for some unknown reason and
+         * exits making it impossible to autostart VBoxSVC when starting
+         * a frontend (debugger and strace don't contain any useful info).
          */
         const char *apszArgs[7];