Hello, 2010/3/16 Glyph Lefkowitz <gl...@twistedmatrix.com>: > On Mar 16, 2010, at 8:44 AM, Alexandre Quessy wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> >> 2010/3/16 <exar...@twistedmatrix.com>: >>> On 07:27 am, t...@commsecure.com.au wrote: >>>> >>>> It's possible to add refinements to the basic .pid system, to make it >>>> more resistant to this kind of problem (off the top of my head, >>>> checking >>>> that the named PID exists, >>> >>> Actually it does this already. But this is a particularly ineffective >>> check, especially for processes launched at boot time, because of the >>> very high possibility of collisions. >> >> It is possible to retrieve the command line that was used to start a >> process. This would be a simple way to check for matches. The command >> line used to start the twistd process could even be stored as well for >> comparison. > > There are many ways to make this more robust; in fact, we already have a > ticket open for doing something about this problem: > <http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/3851>. If you're interested in fixing > it, some work there would be helpful. Even just some comments about > different ways this problem can occur and different approaches to solving it > would be good, so we can have them all in one place.
Excellent, I've added a comment there. Cheers, > > Thanks, > > -glyph > > > _______________________________________________ > Twisted-Python mailing list > Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com > http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python > -- Alexandre Quessy http://alexandre.quessy.net/ _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
