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Date:      Sat, 10 Jun 1995 22:10:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Minor nits about bindist...
Message-ID:  <199506110510.WAA08032@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950611105428.258H-100000@aries> from "Brian Tao" at Jun 11, 95 11:09:04 am

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> On Sat, 10 Jun 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > 
> > It will exit if there are no valid lines in /etc/exports for it to
> > export.    [Gee, why would it wont to keep running when it has no
> > work to do :-)]
> 
>     I dunno, tell that to nfsd.  ;-)  I would like to edit
> /etc/exports and then do a "kill -1 `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`" on it
> instead of having to figure out whether it is really there (e.g. from
> a script).  I can't rely on /var/run/mountd.pid as it is now because
> it may contain stale information.  Just a matter of consistency.  Then
> again, I wish UNIX had some way of letting you do send message vectors
> to running processes by name rather than this business of looking up
> their pid and firing a signal off to it...

Perhaps it is time to add a few more RPC calls to them there daemons
so you could fire an RPC at them to do most of the things that kill -SIGHUP
does now.

I have always hated using HUP to cause reloads of data files, I find it
gross compared to the nice neat stuff that VMS does :-).


-- 
Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                   Custom computers for FreeBSD



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