Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 16:18:21 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Fixing" init. Message-ID: <v04210102b4d759408cda@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20000219114547.T21720@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000219022149.N21720@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000219114547.T21720@fw.wintelcom.net>
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At 11:45 AM -0800 2/19/00, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >* Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> [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
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