From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 10 20:13:24 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id UAA28893 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 10 Jun 1995 20:13:24 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA28802 for ; Sat, 10 Jun 1995 20:11:14 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA06879; Sun, 11 Jun 1995 11:09:10 +0800 Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 11:09:04 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: "Rodney W. Grimes" cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Minor nits about bindist... In-Reply-To: <199506102134.OAA07676@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sat, 10 Jun 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > It will exit if there are no valid lines in /etc/exports for it to > export. [Gee, why would it wont to keep running when it has no > work to do :-)] I dunno, tell that to nfsd. ;-) I would like to edit /etc/exports and then do a "kill -1 `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`" on it instead of having to figure out whether it is really there (e.g. from a script). I can't rely on /var/run/mountd.pid as it is now because it may contain stale information. Just a matter of consistency. Then again, I wish UNIX had some way of letting you do send message vectors to running processes by name rather than this business of looking up their pid and firing a signal off to it... -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org