Add message from grandchild to parent to indicate successful host launch.

remoting/host/linux/linux_me2me_host.py

 #!/usr/bin/python
 # Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 
 # Virtual Me2Me implementation.  This script runs and manages the processes
 # required for a Virtual Me2Me desktop, which are: X server, X desktop
 # session, and Host process.
 # This script is intended to run continuously as a background daemon
 # process, running under an ordinary (non-root) user account.
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     if self.ssh_auth_sockname:
       args.append("--ssh-auth-sockname=%s" % self.ssh_auth_sockname)
 
     # Have the host process use SIGUSR1 to signal a successful start.
     def sigusr1_handler(signum, frame):
       _ = signum, frame
       logging.info("Host ready to receive connections.")
       self.host_ready = True
       if (ParentProcessLogger.instance() and
           False not in [desktop.host_ready for desktop in g_desktops]):
-        ParentProcessLogger.instance().release_parent()
+        ParentProcessLogger.instance().release_parent(True)
 
     signal.signal(signal.SIGUSR1, sigusr1_handler)
     args.append("--signal-parent")
 
     self.host_proc = subprocess.Popen(args, env=self.child_env,
                                       stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
     logging.info(args)
     if not self.host_proc.pid:
       raise Exception("Could not start Chrome Remote Desktop host")
 
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     # Ensure write_pipe is closed on exec, otherwise it will be kept open by
     # child processes (X, host), preventing the read pipe from EOF'ing.
     old_flags = fcntl.fcntl(write_pipe, fcntl.F_GETFD)
     fcntl.fcntl(write_pipe, fcntl.F_SETFD, old_flags | fcntl.FD_CLOEXEC)
     self._read_file = os.fdopen(read_pipe, 'r')
     self._write_file = os.fdopen(write_pipe, 'w')
     self._logging_handler = None
     ParentProcessLogger.__instance = self
 
   def start_logging(self):
-    """Installs a logging handler that sends log entries to a pipe.
+    """Installs a logging handler that sends log entries to a pipe, prefixed
+    with the string 'MSG:'. This allows them to be distinguished by the parent
+    process from commands sent over the same pipe.
 
     Must be called by the child process.
     """
     self._read_file.close()
     self._logging_handler = logging.StreamHandler(self._write_file)
+    self._logging_handler.setFormatter(logging.Formatter(fmt='MSG:%(message)s'))
     logging.getLogger().addHandler(self._logging_handler)
 
-  def release_parent(self):
+  def release_parent(self, success):
     """Uninstalls logging handler and closes the pipe, releasing the parent.
 
     Must be called by the child process.
+
+    success: If true, write a "host ready" message to the parent process before
+             closing the pipe.
     """
     if self._logging_handler:
       logging.getLogger().removeHandler(self._logging_handler)
       self._logging_handler = None
     if not self._write_file.closed:
+      if success:

[Jamie, 2016/02/11 00:00:23]

Unrelated to your comments--I forgot to include this last-minute change in the
original CL.

+        self._write_file.write("READY\n")
+        self._write_file.flush()
       self._write_file.close()
 
   def wait_for_logs(self):
     """Waits and prints log lines from the daemon until the pipe is closed.
 
     Must be called by the parent process.
+
+    Returns:
+      True if the host started and successfully registered with the directory;
+      false otherwise.
     """
     # If Ctrl-C is pressed, inform the user that the daemon is still running.
     # This signal will cause the read loop below to stop with an EINTR IOError.
     def sigint_handler(signum, frame):
       _ = signum, frame
       print("Interrupted. The daemon is still running in the background.",
             file=sys.stderr)
 
     signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, sigint_handler)
 
     # Install a fallback timeout to release the parent process, in case the
     # daemon never responds (e.g. host crash-looping, daemon killed).
     # This signal will cause the read loop below to stop with an EINTR IOError.
     def sigalrm_handler(signum, frame):
       _ = signum, frame
       print("No response from daemon. It may have crashed, or may still be "
             "running in the background.", file=sys.stderr)
 
     signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, sigalrm_handler)
     signal.alarm(30)
 
     self._write_file.close()
 
     # Print lines as they're logged to the pipe until EOF is reached or readline
     # is interrupted by one of the signal handlers above.
+    host_ready = False
     try:
       for line in iter(self._read_file.readline, ''):
-        sys.stderr.write(line)
+        if line[:4] == "MSG:":
+          sys.stderr.write(line[4:])
+        elif line == "READY\n":
+          host_ready = True
+        else:
+          sys.stderr.write("Unrecognized command: " + line)
     except IOError as e:
       if e.errno != errno.EINTR:
         raise
     print("Log file: %s" % os.environ[LOG_FILE_ENV_VAR], file=sys.stderr)
+    return host_ready
 
   @staticmethod
   def instance():
     """Returns the singleton instance, if it exists."""
     return ParentProcessLogger.__instance
 
 
 def daemonize():
   """Background this process and detach from controlling terminal, redirecting
   stdout/stderr to a log file."""
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     pid = os.fork()
 
     if pid == 0:
       # Grandchild process
       pass
     else:
       # Child process
       os._exit(0)  # pylint: disable=W0212
   else:
     # Parent process
-    parent_logger.wait_for_logs()
-    os._exit(0)  # pylint: disable=W0212
+    if parent_logger.wait_for_logs():
+      os._exit(0)  # pylint: disable=W0212
+    else:
+      os._exit(1)  # pylint: disable=W0212
 
   logging.info("Daemon process started in the background, logging to '%s'" %
                os.environ[LOG_FILE_ENV_VAR])
 
   os.chdir(HOME_DIR)
 
   parent_logger.start_logging()
 
   # Copy the file-descriptors to create new stdin, stdout and stderr.  Note
   # that dup2(oldfd, newfd) closes newfd first, so this will close the current
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           # process refuses to die for some reason.
           psutil_proc.wait(timeout=10)
         except psutil.TimeoutExpired:
           logging.error("Timed out - sending SIGKILL")
           psutil_proc.kill()
         except psutil.Error:
           logging.error("Error terminating process")
 
   g_desktops = []
   if ParentProcessLogger.instance():
-    ParentProcessLogger.instance().release_parent()
+    ParentProcessLogger.instance().release_parent(False)
 
 class SignalHandler:
   """Reload the config file on SIGHUP. Since we pass the configuration to the
   host processes via stdin, they can't reload it, so terminate them. They will
   be relaunched automatically with the new config."""
 
   def __init__(self, host_config):
     self.host_config = host_config
 
   def __call__(self, signum, _stackframe):
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         else:
           logging.info("Host exited with status %s." % os.WEXITSTATUS(status))
       elif os.WIFSIGNALED(status):
         logging.info("Host terminated by signal %s." % os.WTERMSIG(status))
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
   logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG,
                       format="%(asctime)s:%(levelname)s:%(message)s")
   sys.exit(main())