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Date:      Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:26:52 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/pkill pkill.1 pkill.c
Message-ID:  <p0623090bbf32a4228fe7@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <p06230909bf329ce9de72@[128.113.24.47]>
References:  <200508241938.j7OJcSNW066686@repoman.freebsd.org> <200508241602.59424.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20050824205627.GD755@garage.freebsd.pl> <p06230909bf329ce9de72@[128.113.24.47]>

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At 6:14 PM -0400 8/24/05, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
>
>I'd slightly prefer something other than adding another option,
>but I can't think of anything which is particularly better.  The
>only other suggestion might be to have "daemon.lpid" filenames
>instead of "daemon.pid", but that also seems icky to me.

To extend that a bit:  it might be nice if daemons which used
the new library would create "daemon.lpid" files, just so it
is easy to tell which pid-files are using the new code.  But I
think it would be ugly for `pkill' to alter its behavior based
on the filename given...

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn     =      gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer               or   gad@FreeBSD.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;             Troy, NY;  USA



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