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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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