Oron Peled wrote:
On Sunday, 1 בFebruary 2009, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Then again, it is a daemon. It has no parent (well, init is its parent).
It's not clear from your description (or your replies to other posters)
why you don't want init to babysit this daemon.
Because I do not want it under a watchdog. This is not what this is about.
Under certain circumstances I need to get the agent to reload its
configuration. When that happens, and only then, I need to *shut it
down* and then restart it. I do NOT want a watchdog to automatically
restart it whenever it fails. Such a thing will actually be a hindrance.
The second point is that I don't need advice about how it can be done. I
can think of three or four ways not mentioned here at all. They have
disadvantages in relation to what I implemented, mostly in how long it
takes to figure out that the daemon has, indeed, finished, and in how
much protocol specific changes they would require. I am asking for
opinion about that one specific way I chose, which works beautifully,
but is extremely non-standard.
I'll repeat - it is already implemented, debugged and working.
* The init stuff in busybox is really simple, i've once played with
it.
Ooh, that's one I try to avoid if at all possible. 3rd party patches are
bad enough to maintain, getting your own into 3rd party projects is a
last resort at best.
Thanks all of you for your help. It may not sound like that, but I am
grateful for your help.
Shachar
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