Do not reload NGINX if master process dies

internal/ingress/controller/nginx.go

@@ -343,17 +343,10 @@ func (n *NGINXController) Start() {
 			// issues because of this behavior.
 			// To avoid this issue we restart nginx in case of errors.
 			if process.IsRespawnIfRequired(err) {
-				process.WaitUntilPortIsAvailable(n.cfg.ListenPorts.HTTP)
 				// release command resources
-				cmd.Process.Release()
-				// start a new nginx master process if the controller is not being stopped
-				cmd = n.command.ExecCommand()
-				cmd.SysProcAttr = &syscall.SysProcAttr{
-					Setpgid: true,
-					Pgid:    0,
-				}
-				n.start(cmd)
+				return
 			}
+
 		case event := <-n.updateCh.Out():
 			if n.isShuttingDown {
 				break

internal/ingress/controller/process/nginx.go

@@ -17,14 +17,9 @@ limitations under the License.
 package process
 
 import (
-	"fmt"
-	"net"
-	"os"
 	"os/exec"
 	"syscall"
-	"time"
 
-	"github.com/ncabatoff/process-exporter/proc"
 	"k8s.io/klog"
 )
 
@@ -43,41 +38,3 @@ NGINX master process died (%v): %v
 `, waitStatus.ExitStatus(), err)
 	return true
 }
-
-// WaitUntilPortIsAvailable waits until there is no NGINX master or worker
-// process/es listening in a particular port.
-func WaitUntilPortIsAvailable(port int) {
-	// we wait until the workers are killed
-	for {
-		conn, err := net.DialTimeout("tcp", fmt.Sprintf("0.0.0.0:%v", port), 1*time.Second)
-		if err != nil {
-			break
-		}
-		conn.Close()
-		// kill nginx worker processes
-		fs, err := proc.NewFS("/proc", false)
-		if err != nil {
-			klog.Errorf("unexpected error reading /proc information: %v", err)
-			continue
-		}
-
-		procs, _ := fs.FS.AllProcs()
-		for _, p := range procs {
-			pn, err := p.Comm()
-			if err != nil {
-				klog.Errorf("unexpected error obtaining process information: %v", err)
-				continue
-			}
-
-			if pn == "nginx" {
-				osp, err := os.FindProcess(p.PID)
-				if err != nil {
-					klog.Errorf("unexpected error obtaining process information: %v", err)
-					continue
-				}
-				osp.Signal(syscall.SIGQUIT)
-			}
-		}
-		time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
-	}
-}