Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:33:58 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, josb@cncdsl.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DJBDNS vs. BIND Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010219133309.56503a-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <200102191829.f1JIT6l37371@earth.backplane.com>
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On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > :> cached state data is inherently bad everywhere, not just in DNS > :> servers. > :> > : > :You scare me, I was thinking just the same thing about mountd > :earlier today. Only problem is that it violates POLA(* heh), one > :could offer an command line option to have it watch the file. > > I was thinking just having a 'mountd -reload'. I don't like the > idea of programs polling configuration files. I actually used a > similar mechanism in Diablo and wound up having to add hacks to, > for example, try to avoid catching a configuration file in the middle > of being written out by an editor. Yeah -- automatic rereading of configuration files worries me also. You can end up with races during a file-rewrite. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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