Fix forever waiting on services not properly closing pipes at start

cmd/start.go

@@ -1423,9 +1423,9 @@ func StartJail(args []string) {
 		if len(cj.Config.Exec_start) > 0 {
 			fmt.Printf("  > Start services:\n")
 			cmd := fmt.Sprintf("/usr/sbin/setfib %s /usr/sbin/jexec %d %s", cj.Config.Exec_fib, cj.JID, cj.Config.Exec_start)
-			out, err := executeCommand(cmd)
+			err := executeCommandNonBlocking(cmd)
 			if err != nil && len(out) > 0 {
-				fmt.Printf("Error: %v: %s\n", err, out)
+				fmt.Printf("Error: %v\n", err)
 			} else {
 				fmt.Printf("  > Start services: OK\n")
 			}

cmd/utils.go

@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ func executeCommand(cmdline string) (string, error) {
 		// else
 		word = word + string(c)
 	}
-	
+
 	if len(cmd) > 1 {
 		out, err = exec.Command(cmd[0], cmd[1:]...).CombinedOutput()
 	} else {
@@ -225,6 +225,72 @@ func executeCommand(cmdline string) (string, error) {
 	return string(out), err
 }
 
+/* From iocage: 
+*         # Courtesy of @william-gr
+*         # service(8) and some rc.d scripts have the bad h*abit of
+*         # exec'ing and never closing stdout/stderr. This makes
+*         # sure we read only enough until the command exits and do
+*         # not wait on the pipe to close on the other end.
+* So this function executes process without waiting after completion
+*/
+func executeCommandNonBlocking(cmdline string) (error) {
+	var cmd []string
+	var oCmd *exec.Cmd
+	var err error
+	
+	if gUseSudo {
+		cmd = append(cmd, "sudo")
+	}
+	
+	var word string
+	var in_escaped bool
+	// Split by words, or " enclosed words
+	for i, c := range (cmdline) {
+		if string(c) == "\"" {
+			if in_escaped {
+				// This is the closing "
+				cmd = append(cmd, word)
+				in_escaped = false
+			} else {
+				in_escaped = true
+			}
+			continue
+		}
+		if string(c) == " " {
+			if in_escaped {
+				word = word + string(c)
+				continue
+			} else {
+				cmd = append(cmd, word)
+				word = ""
+				continue
+			}
+		}
+		if i == (len(cmdline) - 1) {
+			word = word + string(c)
+			cmd = append(cmd, word)
+			break
+		}
+		
+		// else
+		word = word + string(c)
+	}
+	
+	if len(cmd) > 1 {
+		oCmd = exec.Command(cmd[0], cmd[1:]...)
+	} else {
+		oCmd = exec.Command(cmd[0])
+	}
+	
+	if err = oCmd.Start(); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	err = oCmd.Wait()
+
+	return err
+}
+
 // Executed command outputs to stdout in realtime
 func executeCommandWithOutputToStdout(cmdline string) (error) {
 	var cmd []string
@@ -616,7 +682,7 @@ func copyDevfsRuleset(ruleset int, srcrs int) error {
 
 /********************************************************************************
  * Returns value of parameter as read in /var/run/jail.$InternalName.conf
- * Directoves without value will return "true" if found
+ * Directives without value will return "true" if found
  * Returns an error if parameter not found in file
 *******************************************************************************/
 func getValueFromRunningConfig(jname string, param string) (string, error) {