[tor-bugs] #7667 [Stem]: Support launching an ‘owned’ Tor process

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#7667: Support launching an ‘owned’ Tor process
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 Reporter:  rransom      |          Owner:  atagar
     Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  new   
 Priority:  normal       |      Milestone:        
Component:  Stem         |        Version:        
 Keywords:               |         Parent:        
   Points:               |   Actualpoints:        
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 #7666 suggests that Stem provide an easy way to send the `TAKEOWNERSHIP`
 command along a control-port connection (and provides a patch).  This may
 be useful (at least within Stem), but it is probably too low-level for
 controller authors to use correctly.

 Instead, Stem should provide an easy way to launch a Tor process which is
 ‘owned’ by the controller process.  See §3.23 of control-spec.txt for how
 to do this correctly.  ''Do not'' leave out the third step (“`RESETCONF
 __OwningControllerProcess`”) like chiiph did in Vidalia, or Tor will waste
 CPU and spam any info-level log destinations with “Monitored process
 (number) is still alive.” every 15 seconds.

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