gns3-server/gns3server/main.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# Copyright (C) 2015 GNS3 Technologies Inc.
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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#
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"""
Entry point of the server. It's support daemonize the process
"""

# WARNING
# Due to buggy user machines we choose to put this as the first loading
# otherwise the egg cache is initialized in his standard location and
# if is not writetable the application crash. It's the user fault
# because one day the user as used sudo to run an egg and break his
# filesystem permissions, but it's a common mistake.
import gns3server.utils.get_resource

import os
import sys


def daemonize():
    """
    Do the UNIX double-fork magic for properly detaching process
    """
    try:
        pid = os.fork()
        if pid > 0:
            # Exit first parent
            sys.exit(0)
    except OSError as e:
        print("First fork failed: %d (%s)\n" % (e.errno, e.strerror), file=sys.stderr)
        sys.exit(1)

    # Decouple from parent environment
    os.setsid()
    os.umask(0o007)

    # Do second fork
    try:
        pid = os.fork()
        if pid > 0:
            # Exit from second parent
            sys.exit(0)
    except OSError as e:
        print("Second fork failed: %d (%s)\n" % (e.errno, e.strerror), file=sys.stderr)
        sys.exit(1)


def main():
    """
    Entry point for GNS3 server
    """

    if sys.platform.startswith("win"):
        raise SystemExit("Windows is not a supported platform to run the GNS3 server")
    if "--daemon" in sys.argv:
        daemonize()
    from gns3server.server import Server

    Server().run()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()