From owner-cvs-all Fri May 11 14: 0:13 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52F2D37B423; Fri, 11 May 2001 14:00:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f4BKxtf30936; Fri, 11 May 2001 16:59:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 16:59:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Wilko Bulte Cc: Murray Stokely , cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking chapter.sgml In-Reply-To: <20010511195046.B1672@freebie.demon.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 11 May 2001, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 02:25:34AM -0700, Murray Stokely wrote: > > Which reminds me: I discovered (actually, I read the man page ;-) that > Tru64's mountd automagically re-reads /etc/exports once it gets polled > by a 'showmount -e' > > Would this be something for FreeBSD? I, for one, tend to forget this > kill -1 thingy. Maybe it's just me, but I hate it when I discover "automagic" things like that. As the administrator, I know when the contents of the file /etc/exports will be consistent on disk, and I indicate that to the daemon by sending it a signal. If daemons are capable of detecting file writes or spontaneously re-reading, they run the risk that either they'll see an inconsistency during the file writing process from the editor (mid-memory-chunk, say), or that they'll hit a copy which I've saved but not yet finished editing. I'm all for making restarting daemons easier -- you can imagine a daemonctl or something that speaks "restart" for a bunch of daemons, but automagic can sometimes hurt you more than it helps you. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message