Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 13:23:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Lists <lists@mrvid.demon.co.uk> To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'unlinkd' Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980130132251.17553C-100000@millennium.net> In-Reply-To: <34D1A393.61487FA0@tdx.co.uk>
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On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Karl Pielorz wrote: > Does anyone know what: > > /usr/local/sbin/unlinkd > > Actually does? - It doesn't have a man page, but it seems to have been started > at boot time on my system > > "167 ?? I 0:00.02 /usr/local/sbin/unlinkd" > > It's a BSD executable, if you run strings through it - it turns up: > > "hi there" as the last string in the program... > > The systems a 2.2.5 system, and this is the first time I've seen this program? > > Anyone know what it is? It's part of the squid package, it's used by squid so that it doesn't have to block itself when deleting files, it just passes the filenames to unlinkd which can then take as long as it wants deleting them. L8rz KrOnUs <kronus@null.net> | http://www.splash.nu/ | PGP Key Available
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