From owner-cvs-all Wed Mar 28 2:23:40 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0475B37B719; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 02:23:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f2SANYN03272; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 02:23:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 02:23:34 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Brian Somers Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc Message-ID: <20010328022334.S9431@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200103281013.f2SADRu73758@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200103281013.f2SADRu73758@freefall.freebsd.org>; from brian@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:13:27AM -0800 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Brian Somers [010328 02:13] wrote: > brian 2001/03/28 02:13:27 PST > > Modified files: > etc rc > Log: > Remove sockets found in /var/run or /var/spool/lock at boot time > (as well as files). This may be a bad idea. Some applications may use these files as an indication of an unorderly shutdown (kill -9 / crash). And refuse to start unless repair utilities are run (or run them automatically). What do you think? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message