after_fork_parent method waits for all child processes to stop

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
devtools

Research direction

Start at lib/debug/local.rb lines 106-107 and inspect after_fork_parent, then reproduce the behavior with the Gemfile and test_daemon.rb example using daemons. Confirm the forked worker behavior from the issue's ps output; done means child processes other than debug no longer remain blocked waiting to stop.

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Description

Your environment

  • ruby -v: ruby 3.2.2 (2023-03-30 revision e51014f9c0) [x86_64-linux]
  • rdbg -v: rdbg 1.9.2

Describe the bug

I'm using delayed_job.
When I tried to increase the number of workers, the number of workers did not increase because the child process did not stop.

The problem was due to Process.waitpid below.

https://github.com/ruby/debug/blob/master/lib/debug/local.rb#L106-L107

To Reproduce

delayed_job uses daemons.

Script:

Gemfile

# frozen_string_literal: true

source "https://rubygems.org"

gem "debug", platforms: %i[ mri windows ]
gem "daemons"

test_daemon.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'bundler/setup'
Bundler.setup
require 'debug'
require 'daemons'

2.times do |i|
  Daemons.run_proc("test_daemon.#{i}") do
    loop do
    end
  end
end

Terminal:

$ test_daemon.rb start

Child processes do not stop and workers do not increase.

$ ps aux
--snip--
sada     14719  1.8  0.2 177232 37168 pts/6    Sl+  17:01   0:00 ruby ./test_daemon.rb start
sada     14735  0.0  0.2 177232 33832 ?        Ssl  17:01   0:00 ruby ./test_daemon.rb start
sada     14737 94.6  0.2 180308 37540 ?        Rl   17:01   0:08 test_daemon.0

The following fork operations are no longer possible.

  1. Forks another child process and exits first child. This prevents the potential of acquiring a controlling terminal.

https://github.com/thuehlinger/daemons/blob/a0e84bcebe8b872ff59e1e0aa10e1f1718a933b1/lib/daemons.rb#L43-L51

Also, in Rails development, debug is loaded by default, When starting delayed_job, unexpected block is caused by this issue.

https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/5e0c7388a378f4beb5368217a8f57f3c1bfbfabe/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/Gemfile.tt#L36

Expected behavior

Child processes other than debug do not wait to stop.

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