From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 21 13:18:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB32837B891; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 13:18:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA63806; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 16:17:57 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000219114547.T21720@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000219022149.N21720@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000219114547.T21720@fw.wintelcom.net> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 16:18:21 -0500 To: Alfred Perlstein , current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: "Fixing" init. Cc: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:45 AM -0800 2/19/00, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >* Alfred Perlstein [000219 02:22] wrote: > > I remeber being a newbie and getting burned by the need to explicitly > > turn a line 'off' in my /etc/ttys file instead of simply deleting it. > > > > This fixes it using a trivial mark then collect sweep. > > > > Can a couple people take a look? I'd like to get it into 4.0 because > > it seems to follow POLA better. > > > > "hey i deleted and HUP'd but init keeps spawing them!" > >ok, NetBSD has had this fixed for _several years_, and they use bitmasks >in the se_flags field, here's an updated patch that's essentially the >same as the old one but using NetBSD's se_flags implementation. > >4.0 please? :) For what it's worth, I like this idea. I must admit I have not tested it, because the disk I was *going* to use to build a 4.0 system seems to be utterly dead right now (hardware-wise). Sigh. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message