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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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>> always keeps the attach count accurate. This provides a very low overhead
>> way of tracking the current number of users in each class without the need
>> of all of the PID files and verification.
>
>This is a really interesting way to do things.  Question: is there
>anything unreliable about using waitpid() to see which processes have
>terminated?

   The answer to this would become obvious the first time you needed to
restart the main server process. :-)

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project