[Bug 268580] [PATCH] Add shutdown delay to daemon(8)

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=268580

            Bug ID: 268580
           Summary: [PATCH] Add shutdown delay to daemon(8)
           Product: Base System
           Version: CURRENT
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: bin
          Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: nhuff@acm.org

Created attachment 239046
  --> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=239046&action=edit
Diff to add shutdown_delay to daemon utility

Currently if daemon is supervising a process and it receives SIGTERM it sends
SIGTERM to the supervised process and then immediately exits.  This has a
couple potential issues.

1. If the daemon process is writing the stdout/stderr of the process to a log
file or syslog it can miss messages that are generated after the supervised
process receives SIGTERM.

2. If the daemon process is maintaining a PID file for the supervised process
it can get removed before the supervised process actually exits. This can cause
issues with processes that expect the PID file to be there while the previously
supervised process is running.

This patch adds a -d <shutdown_delay> option to daemon.  If daemon receives
SIGTERM it will send SIGTERM to the supervised process and then continue
collecting and outputting stdout/stderr.  After shutdown_delay seconds if the
process hasn't already exited it will send SIGKILL to the process and then wait
for it to exit.  This will potentially cause the daemon process to hang around
indefinitely if the supervised process is wedged somewhere deep in the kernel
with signals blocked, but this way it will properly keep the PID file around
while the supervised process is running.

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