Re: inetd improvements [gsoc16]

2016-03-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Mon, 21 Mar 2016, Morgan ``Indrora'' Gangwere wrote: > Currently, I know of no services that are easily deployed on inetd > except bozohttpd and potentially BIND. BIND would not be easy nor really useful via inetd. Some other common services that are easily deployed: tftp pop3 ftpd Other se

Re: Proposal for several minor changes to sh

2016-03-22 Thread Iain Hibbert
On Wed, 16 Mar 2016, Robert Elz wrote: > First, it has irritated me for ages there is no way to know that it is > the NetBSD shell that is running - many (but not all) other shells > implement one, or more, predefined sh variables that can be tested > (and which can give other info about the shell

Re: Request for feedback: inetd improvements [gsoc 2016]

2016-03-22 Thread Christos Zoulas
In article , Morgan ``indrora'' Gangwere wrote: >@cristos / world, > >My proposal draft is available: >http://tsunami.zaibatsutel.net/gsoc16_netbsd_proposal.txt > >I'd appreciate any feedback which can help rough out any edges seen. Something missing: [FREEBSD-INETD] However, no Correc

Re: pidfile_lock(3)

2016-03-22 Thread Edgar Fuß
> It works correctly on NFS if you have the locking daemon setup? NetBSD doesn't support the client side of NLM, does it? Ages ago, I wrote the client side (for 3.0), but nobody picked that up.

Re: pidfile_lock(3)

2016-03-22 Thread Martin Husemann
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 02:10:57PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > It works correctly on NFS if you have the locking daemon setup? Besides, > is there even a valid reason for using NFS for pidfiles? I would expect > /var/run to be a minimal tmpfs in that kind of installations. None of my (plent

Re: pidfile_lock(3)

2016-03-22 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 08:43:31PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 08:53:03PM +, Roy Marples wrote: > > On Sunday 20 March 2016 14:53:46 you wrote: > > > On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 23:29:37 + > > > > > > Roy Marples wrote: > > > > pidfile(3) is pretty crap - it just w