also sprach Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> [2016-01-30 05:54 +1300]: > Can you be more specific how you envision this to work? Afaics > this is inherently racy, so I'm not sure if it's a good idea to > provide such an interface.
Is it racy? Wouldn't it be as simple as monitoring the inode of /proc/$pid and if the directory disappears or changes inode, then the PID has terminated? Surely, this can also be done without procfs… > Why don't you just run your backup via systemd-inhibit > <my-backup-script>? I assume you trigger this via cron or > a similar mechanism, so adding systemd-inhibit to start the > command seems like the correct way. To do this, I'd have to tell my backup server about all the machines that use systemd, i.e. another place to track this information that is inherently implicit in the systems. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@d.o> @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "picture yourself in a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmelade skies..." -- the beatles
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