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Date:      Sat, 14 Aug 1999 08:28:38 -0700
From:      Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>, Chris Piazza <cpiazza@home.net>, "Vanilla I. Shu" <vanilla@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/security/xinetd Makefile ports/security/xinetd/files md5
Message-ID:  <19990814082838.A6701@wopr.caltech.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199908141452.QAA23532@gratis.grondar.za>; from Mark Murray on Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 04:52:55PM %2B0200
References:  <199908141452.QAA23532@gratis.grondar.za>

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On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 04:52:55PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote:

> Programs that care should look for the process with the PID in that file,
> and if it is not found, should do something sane (like restart the errant
> process or rm the file).

This could lead to bad decision-making in the case that the PIDs have
wrapped and some new, random process has the daemon's old PID.

I suppose whether this is important or not depends on your application.

-- 
Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * UNIX is a lever for the
http://www.pobox.com/~mph/           * intellect. -J.R. Mashey


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