Re: Holy Water in my system? Daemons keep dying . . .
OK, I don't mind that as long as the bug is left open (with severity
downgraded, of course).
John
Brandon Mitchell <bhmit1@mail.wm.edu> writes:
> On 15 Jun 1998, John Goerzen wrote:
>
> > > Or, just put a 2 second sleep between the kill and start in the
> > > /etc/init.d/lpd restart section.
> >
> > Why would this make a difference? Wouldn't this signify a race
> > condition? Worse, on a heavily-loaded system, wouldn't 2 seconds be
> > too little a wait for whatever needs to be done?
>
> Yes, it is a race condition. My guess is that lpr doesn't die before the
> next lpr tries to start up. The second lpr sees the first and fails to
> start, and then the first finally dies. There are much better solutions
> than a 2 second wait, and it will probably fail on a heavily-loaded
> system. However, it's enough to get the bug out of the release critical
> list, and to take a deap breath before working on the correct solution.
>
> OK?
> Brandon
>
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