From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Feb 20 12:59:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from prism.flugsvamp.com (cb58709-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.17.241.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D75BC37B4EC for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:59:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jlemon@flugsvamp.com) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by prism.flugsvamp.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f1KKwhg54340; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 14:58:43 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jlemon) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 14:58:43 -0600 From: Jonathan Lemon To: Jonathan Graehl Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: modifying config files for a running daemon Message-ID: <20010220145843.D85542@prism.flugsvamp.com> References: <20010220105723.C85542@prism.flugsvamp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 12:48:19PM -0800, Jonathan Graehl wrote: > Is there any way to be sure of receiving a change notification only after the > writer has closed the file? No, I don't think so. But even if that was the case, it doesn't eliminate the race condition where another process can open the file after the notification was sent. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message