From owner-cvs-all Sat Aug 14 8:29: 4 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.240.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 558F81514C; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 08:29:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id IAA06857; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 08:28:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph) Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 08:28:38 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt To: Mark Murray Cc: "Brian F. Feldman" , Chris Piazza , "Vanilla I. Shu" , 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> References: <199908141452.QAA23532@gratis.grondar.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199908141452.QAA23532@gratis.grondar.za>; from Mark Murray on Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 04:52:55PM +0200 Approved: graham.spanier Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 * 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