From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Nov 30 12:55:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7709715A1A for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 12:55:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA11307 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 21:55:14 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id VAA72969 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 21:55:14 +0100 (MET) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF09F15A1A; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 12:54:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA18044; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 13:54:10 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAz1aimJ; Tue Nov 30 13:54:07 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA05867; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 13:54:41 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199911302054.NAA05867@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf files.i386 src/sys/kern kern_fork.c To: billf@chc-chimes.com (Bill Fumerola) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 20:54:41 +0000 (GMT) Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, kris@hub.freebsd.org, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, dan@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org, audit@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Bill Fumerola" at Nov 30, 99 01:52:28 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > You're too newly-minted an admin to have an informed opinion about > > this, I hate to say. People who've been doing Unix since the 70's > > have different definitions of "defined" since anything you use for > > over 10 years becomes "defined" whether it's written down anywhere or > > not, and there are thousands of examples of this around. > > There's nothing like the "I'm older and have been doing this > longer." to explain something. > > I still say that there are too many external factors in the old > linear system to depend on getting a certain pid. SMP, anyone? You are supposed to use the variable containing the child process ID in your scripts, anyway. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message