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Zero-downtime restarts in Go
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Don't use syscall.Close() on inherited fd #29

Closed vincentbernat closed 8 years ago

vincentbernat commented 8 years ago

Inherited file descriptor is encapsulated into a File using os.NewFile(). There is no dup() done by Go in this case and a finalizer will close the File (and the file descriptor if the file wasn't already closed) when it becomes out of reach. Using syscall.Close() will close the file descriptor but not the File. At some point, the finalizer will kick in, notice the file hasn't been closed and close again the file descriptor. If the file descriptor was reassigned to something else, we close an unrelated file descriptor.

Tested with Go 1.7. Source code shows there is no dup() done when using NewFile():

vincentbernat commented 8 years ago

In fact, this is a duplicate of #28...