From owner-cvs-all Sat Aug 14 8:31:18 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AEDD15108; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 08:31:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA56536; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 11:31:08 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 11:31:08 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Mark Murray , 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 In-Reply-To: <82984.934643567@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Sat, 14 Aug 1999 10:58:18 -0400, "Brian F. Feldman" wrote: > > > So we're expected to do something like this? > > 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. > > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message