Dmitry Bogatov <kact...@ruggedinbox.com> writes: > I can understand this need, although never needed it myself.
> But implementation makes me sad. Instead of creating UNIX-way solution > (create /var/run/foo.ready, when you are ready?), it does the worst > thing I can imagine. If communicating with another local daemon via a UNIX domain socket is the worst thing that you can imagine, you don't have a very good imagination. :) That's been a long-standing, very UNIX-y way of doing things like this dating back literally decades. (When was INN 1.0? 1994? I think BIND may have done something similar even earlier.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
