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Date:      Thu, 05 Sep 2013 10:20:13 +0900 (JST)
From:      Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>
To:        pjd@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r255227 - in head: . usr.sbin/rwhod
Message-ID:  <20130905.102013.1604548446233669011.hrs@allbsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <201309050105.r8515nf3094355@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201309050105.r8515nf3094355@svn.freebsd.org>

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> wrote
  in <201309050105.r8515nf3094355@svn.freebsd.org>:

pj> Author: pjd
pj> Date: Thu Sep  5 01:05:48 2013
pj> New Revision: 255227
pj> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/255227
pj>
pj> Log:
pj>   Remove fallback to fork(2) if pdfork(2) is not available. If the parent
pj>   process dies, the process descriptor will be closed and pdfork(2)ed child
pj>   will be killed, which is not the case when regular fork(2) is used.
pj>
pj>   The PROCDESC option is now part of the GENERIC kernel configuration, so we
pj>   can start depending on it.
pj>
pj>   Add UPDATING entry to inform that this option is now required and log
pj>   detailed instruction to syslog if pdfork(2) is not available:
pj>
pj>   	The pdfork(2) system call is not available; recompile the kernel with options PROCDESC
pj>
pj>   Submitted by:	Mariusz Zaborski <oshogbo@FreeBSD.org>
pj>   Sponsored by:	Google Summer of Code 2013

 Is there any reason to keep PROCDESC as an option?

-- Hiroki

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