Bug: Background doesn't work as expected, should be deprecated and eventually removed
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 28/100
Research direction
Start at lib/sshkit/backends/abstract.rb#L59 and inspect how the background DSL method invokes nohup and shell job control. Search the repository for background callers and related tests or documentation; done means the agreed deprecation or removal scope is reflected consistently across the DSL and its uses.
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Description
The problem is that background simply nohup and backgrounds the process using the shell's job control &. More often than not, badly behaved daemons still block.
There's many hoops to jump through to ensure that your process behaves well when backgrounded, forked, nohupped, etc - and we can't whitelist programs that do it well, and blacklist those that can't.
Discussion is welcome, but I do think that background() should be removed from the DSL.
- Dominant language
- Ruby
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