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Date:      Wed, 28 Mar 2001 12:25:46 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc 
Message-ID:  <92304.985775146@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Mar 2001 02:23:34 -0800." <20010328022334.S9431@fw.wintelcom.net> 

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In message <20010328022334.S9431@fw.wintelcom.net>, Alfred Perlstein writes:
>* Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org> [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?

I think such applications are badly designed since the file
could disappear for exactly the same reasons which force the
application to run recovery...

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