Re: Execute engine.restart() in thread hangs

On Friday, December 16, 2016 at 10:37:36 AM UTC-6, Steven Sawyer wrote:
>
> I'm working on a user-hosted application that needs to periodically check 
> for updates, apply them, then restart.
>
> I have the update checker/installer running in a separate thread, but I 
> can't get it to restart the server. It seems as though calling 
> cherrypy.engine.restart() inside a child thread makes the server hang 
> waiting for that thread to terminate so it can completely shut down. And 
> that thread won't terminate until the restart() call finishes.
>
> Is there a good way to call a server restart from a child thread?
>

How are you deploying/managing your applicaton? If you're using the built 
in server and autoreloader then you can simply 'touch' a file that's being 
served and it will restart the server. 

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