Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 11:31:08 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, 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: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908141130330.55593-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <82984.934643567@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
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> On Sat, 14 Aug 1999 10:58:18 -0400, "Brian F. Feldman" wrote:
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> > So we're expected to do something like this?
> > p=$(</var/run/foo.pid); kill $p; rm -f $p
>
> Depends what you're trying to do. I think Mark's point is simply that
> you can't rely on the existance of a pidfile as a guarantee that a
> process is running. He's right, and it's easy to prove with SIGKILL. :-)
Oh. Well that wasn't my point. My point was only that a program should make
an attempt to clean up after itself.
>
> Ciao,
> Sheldon.
>
>
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