From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 11 14:23:47 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA19263 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 11 Jun 1995 14:23:47 -0700 Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [198.137.146.49]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA19254 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 1995 14:23:38 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rover.village.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA29165; Sun, 11 Jun 1995 15:16:03 -0600 Message-Id: <199506112116.PAA29165@rover.village.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Subject: Re: Minor nits about bindist... Cc: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 10 Jun 1995 22:10:35 PDT Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 15:15:50 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk : 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 :-). VMS usually has a mailbox that you write commands to (gross simplification). The mailbox has a protection of some sort. The closest thing on Unix is a named pipe. Maybe a named pipe might not be a bad idea for things like mountd controlling. Warner