Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 02:52:35 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc Message-ID: <20010328025234.T9431@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <92304.985775146@critter>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:25:46PM %2B0200 References: <20010328022334.S9431@fw.wintelcom.net> <92304.985775146@critter>
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* Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> [010328 02:25] wrote: > In message <20010328022334.S9431@fw.wintelcom.net>, Alfred Perlstein writes: > >* Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org> [010328 02:13] wrote: > >> brian 2001/03/28 02:13:27 PST > >> > >> Modified files: > >> etc rc > >> Log: > >> Remove sockets found in /var/run or /var/spool/lock at boot time > >> (as well as files). > > > >This may be a bad idea. > > > >Some applications may use these files as an indication of an > >unorderly shutdown (kill -9 / crash). And refuse to start unless > >repair utilities are run (or run them automatically). > > > >What do you think? > > I think such applications are badly designed since the file > could disappear for exactly the same reasons which force the > application to run recovery... You mean after fsync() returns? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Daemon News Magazine in your snail-mail! http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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