Hi, Kevin Chadwick: > Regex works just fine for me. > One sample usecase where they dont't: "the system is wedged / overcommitted and I need to terminate some services; guess I'll start another ten processes to do that". Yeah, right. I'll be nice to everybody else here and not enumerate any others. >> … not to mention any other processes which the daemon started, which >> may or may not linger after its (grand)parent died, and which may or >> may not cause problems when restarting. > > Never happened to me and shouldn't happen on a well designed service > that should be controlling it's children. If it does happen you should > be checking the system over anyway and possibly filing a bug. *its children. Besides, this is immaterial; a well-designed init should be able to cope with not-well-designed services and furthermore should be able to help me debug them if/when that happens. To summarize: Please stop bashing features just because you happen to not need ^w want them. -- -- Matthias Urlichs
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