From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 1 11:29:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA06230 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 11:29:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06224 for ; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 11:29:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA06203; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 20:28:58 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id UAA22253; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 20:28:58 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19981201202857.B21015@follo.net> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 20:28:57 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: dg@root.com, John Fieber Cc: The Hermit Hacker , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'junk pointer' with inetd ... References: <199812011415.GAA29284@root.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199812011415.GAA29284@root.com>; from David Greenman on Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 06:15:23AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message