Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 20:54:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: billf@chc-chimes.com (Bill Fumerola) Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, kris@hub.freebsd.org, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, dan@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org, audit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf files.i386 src/sys/kern kern_fork.c Message-ID: <199911302054.NAA05867@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911301351090.59489-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com> from "Bill Fumerola" at Nov 30, 99 01:52:28 pm
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> > 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
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