Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 20:28:57 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: dg@root.com, John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'junk pointer' with inetd ... Message-ID: <19981201202857.B21015@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <199812011415.GAA29284@root.com>; from David Greenman on Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 06:15:23AM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812010909090.537-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> <199812011415.GAA29284@root.com>
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On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 06:15:23AM -0800, David Greenman wrote: > >Hmm. Not quite textbook dying daemons symptoms. Have a look at > >pr/8183. > > Regarding that PR, I sure wish someone would come up with something better > than writing to a pipe to store temporary state information. As far as I know, this is the 'canonical way' of handling that case. However, I'm unable to find any references - it seems to pure programmer lore. No matter how inelegant it is, I think it should be committed. Any fix is better than no fix. Do you mind if I do it? Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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