on loaded systems, stopGemServerGem can exit long before the gem process has truly exitted ... the following will wait until the pid exits:
while [[ ( -d /proc/$PID ) && ( -z `grep zombie /proc/$PID/status` ) ]]; do
sleep 1
done
I think this is okay ... there are a couple of scenarios in which this can hang forever, but those case occur when the gem itself is wedged (host call debugger or otherwise) and will require a kill -9 to eliminate ... hanging is probably preferable to leaving a process around without cleaning up the socket resources which is the real issue here and ...
dalehenrich
commented
9 years ago
on loaded systems, stopGemServerGem can exit long before the gem process has truly exitted ... the following will wait until the pid exits:
I think this is okay ... there are a couple of scenarios in which this can hang forever, but those case occur when the gem itself is wedged (host call debugger or otherwise) and will require a kill -9 to eliminate ... hanging is probably preferable to leaving a process around without cleaning up the socket resources which is the real issue here and ...