working restart core method

Author: RaNaN

module/Api.py

@@ -238,9 +238,8 @@ def kill(self):
         self.core.do_kill = True
 
     def restart(self):
-        """Not working, not likely to ever will"""
-        pass
-        #self.core.do_restart = True
+        """Restart pyload core"""
+        self.core.do_restart = True
 
     @permission(PERMS.STATUS)
     def getLog(self, offset=0):

module/remote/thriftbackend/ThriftClient.py

@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ def __getattr__(self, item):
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
 
-    client = ThriftClient(user="User", password="")
+    client = ThriftClient(user="User", password="pwhere")
 
     print client.getServerVersion()
     print client.statusServer()

pyLoadCore.py

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 import logging
 import logging.handlers
 import os
-from os import _exit, execl, getcwd, makedirs, remove, sep, walk, chdir
+from os import _exit, execl, getcwd, makedirs, remove, sep, walk, chdir, close
 from os.path import exists, join
 import signal
 import subprocess
@@ -544,6 +544,13 @@ def isClientConnected(self):
     def restart(self):
         self.shutdown()
         chdir(owd)
+        # close some open fds
+        for i in range(3,50):
+            try:
+                close(i)
+            except :
+                pass
+
         execl(executable, executable, *sys.argv)
         _exit(0)