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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 02:52:35 -0800
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc
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* Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> [010328 02:25] wrote:
> 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...

You mean after fsync() returns?

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