[ open-vm-tools-Tracker-2865784 ] vmtoolsd fork bombs

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Tracker item #2865784, was opened at 2009-09-24 08:16
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Category: guestd
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Jim (pirzyk)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: vmtoolsd fork bombs

Initial Comment:
Since the 2009.04.23 release of open-vm-tools, vmtoolsd will not stay running and continually spawns new processes.  The problem is related to how argument processing is done.  Pre 2009.04.23, this would be accepted options and used correctly:

vmtoosld --background=/var/run/vmtoolsd.pid

at 2009.04.23 and after, it would accept it, but not properly spawn vmtoolsd in the background.  My fix was this:

vmtoolsd --background /var/run/vmtoolsd.pid

vmtoolsd should either handle the single option with a '=' or report an error, not accept it and not work correctly

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>Comment By: Marcelo Vanzin (mvanzin)
Date: 2009-09-29 15:17

Message:
Fixed in git commit 598518.

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Comment By: Marcelo Vanzin (mvanzin)
Date: 2009-09-24 16:45

Message:
As a work around until we fix it, using "-b" instead of "--background"
shouldn't cause you problems.

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