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Date:      Tue, 1 Dec 1998 20:28:57 +0100
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        dg@root.com, John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
Cc:        The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 'junk pointer' with inetd ...
Message-ID:  <19981201202857.B21015@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <199812011415.GAA29284@root.com>; from David Greenman on Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 06:15:23AM -0800
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812010909090.537-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> <199812011415.GAA29284@root.com>

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On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 06:15:23AM -0800, David Greenman wrote:
> >Hmm.  Not quite textbook dying daemons symptoms. Have a look at
> >pr/8183.
> 
>    Regarding that PR, I sure wish someone would come up with something better
> than writing to a pipe to store temporary state information.

As far as I know, this is the 'canonical way' of handling that case. 
However, I'm unable to find any references - it seems to pure programmer
lore.

No matter how inelegant it is, I think it should be committed.   Any fix is
better than no fix.  Do you mind if I do it?

Eivind.

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