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Bug #21100

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When cf-serverd starts it can kill an unrelated process

Added by Benoît PECCATTE over 2 years ago. Updated about 2 years ago.

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Released
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To do
Regression:
No

Description

This is due to a race condition in the lock handling:
- cfengine interprocess locks are stored in lmdb
- when cf-serverd starts, it holds a lock and releases it on stop
- when it restarts, it checks this lock and if it expired, it tries to kill the owning process
- sometime with pid turnover, it can be possible that this pid has been reused by another process in the meantime

We should add a check to make sure we only ever kill cfengine processes

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