On Sat, 2011-12-24 at 05:30:33 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > * If Hurd's procfs interface is supposed to provide a Linux compatible > output, then it needs to switch to only a program name, not a full > path in /proc/<pid>/stat, /statm, etc.
Pino submitted a patch for this (thanks!), which got already applied in the Hurd git repo. > * start-stop-daemon (s-s-d) does not make use of procfs, but its > Hurd --name implementation seems to be buggy in any case. I'll fix > this directly myself. > * s-s-d man page talks explicitly about /proc usage, but that depends > on the system backend being used, I'll fix that too. I've fixed those two in dpkg's git repo, to be released with 1.16.2. > * It would be wonderful if there was a reliable way (not based on argv) > for s-s-d to retrieve a process executable full path name > (something not currently possible through libps it would seem). This is still not possible (or so it seems). Will file a wishlist request upstream. > * rsyslog should probably switch to use s-s-d --exec instead (why is > it using --name anyway? that option has always been more unreliable). Still pending. > > Also the creation of xconsole is disabled, since it does not work yet. > > Why does it not work? If it does not work then there might be a problem with named pipes? regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
