I think it's a fair request to have grace not fail on windows, even if it doesn't actually support graceful restart. I think this mode is a useful compromise for developers using windows but yet deploying to posix environments. I don't have a windows environment setup to work on this but happy to accept pull requests :)

any chance this will be fixed?

I have a windows development machine and i inherited a project that's dependent on this particular library so i can't do anything with it unless i dabble with the source of grace, but that's dirty as hell...

We're not currently working on windows support, but I'd be more than happy to review a pull request :)

I'll see what i can do tomorrow :)

I have 2 options:
do a dirty edit and keep the file on git ignore just so i can get it running locally
or switch to Linux which would actually be ok.

Now I have a third, i'll look through the source more closely tomorrow and get back to you :)

What I would recommend, as the quickest fix, is to only add support for https://godoc.org/github.com/facebookgo/grace/gracehttp, which involves only 1 function, Serve, and provide a stub implementation for windows that just calls https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#Server.ListenAndServe on all the servers. Assuming you don't want to deploy this to production, and are looking for windows support for your development environment, this will be a good enough fix. Good luck!

@kristijan-ujevic here is as a demonstration of the approach @daaku has described above.

There are two files:

• for win

// +build windows

package grace

import "net/http"

func Serve(s *http.Server) error {
    // The code will be a bit more complex when you add support
    // of Serve(s ...*http.Server).
    return s.ListenAndServe()
}

• for nix

// +build !windows

package grace

import (
    "net/http"

    "github.com/facebookgo/grace/gracehttp"
)

func Serve(s *http.Server) error {
    return gracehttp.Serve(s)
}

That's it. Now the Serve method will use gracehttp by default and fall back to the standard net/http on Windows.

i'm not really sure what i need to do with this?

i'm somewhat new to Go, can you explain a bit further please? :)

@kristijan-ujevic Read more about Build Constraints, that is the key here. You create 2 files with 2 different Serve functions: one for windows (that uses net/http), and another one for other platforms (that uses gracehttp).
Then you may use the created Serve function in your code as follows:

log.Fatal(Serve(&http.Server{
    Addr:   "...",
    Handler: ...,
}))

The package I've linked is just an illustration of this approach. You don't want to depend on it for such a simple use-case, but if you do here is a working code that will support graceful restarts and shutdowns on *nix based platforms and just work on windows:

package main

import (
    "log"

    "github.com/colegion/contrib/servers/grace"
)

func main() {
    s := &http.Server{...}
    log.Fatal(grace.Serve(s))
}

Same issue

Anybody tell me what is this github

I have no idea about this

What i can do here yell me now

go get github.com/facebookgo/grace/gracedemo

github.com/facebookgo/grace/gracehttp

..\github.com\facebookgo\grace\gracehttp\http.go:104:53: undefined: syscall.SIGUSR2
..\github.com\facebookgo\grace\gracehttp\http.go:114:8: undefined: syscall.SIGUSR2
..\github.com\facebookgo\grace\gracehttp\http.go:154:13: undefined: syscall.Kill

SIGUSR2 is not define on windows ,just clone , set GOOS=linux ,go build

same issue ,how could i restart the server in windows