OK, I don't mind that as long as the bug is left open (with severity downgraded, of course).
John Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 15 Jun 1998, John Goerzen wrote: > > > > Or, just put a 2 second sleep between the kill and start in the > > > /etc/init.d/lpd restart section. > > > > Why would this make a difference? Wouldn't this signify a race > > condition? Worse, on a heavily-loaded system, wouldn't 2 seconds be > > too little a wait for whatever needs to be done? > > Yes, it is a race condition. My guess is that lpr doesn't die before the > next lpr tries to start up. The second lpr sees the first and fails to > start, and then the first finally dies. There are much better solutions > than a 2 second wait, and it will probably fail on a heavily-loaded > system. However, it's enough to get the bug out of the release critical > list, and to take a deap breath before working on the correct solution. > > OK? > Brandon > > --+-- > Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Debian Testing Group Status > PGP Key: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/deb/ > Dijkstra probably hates me (Linus Torvalds, in kernel/sched.c) > -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Visit the Air Capitol Linux Users Group on the web at http://www.aclug.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
