]] Salvo Tomaselli > Start-stop-daemon terminates when the signal has been sent, not when the > process has terminated, waiting for the process to terminate would make the > scripts easier. > After all they are trying to stop a daemon not to send a signal, so they are > interested in the effective termination of the process.
Then one should use --retry. s-s-d supports the behaviour you're describing. [...] > The sleep is just a poor workaround for a problem in start-stop-daemon, by > putting a waitpid in it, all those sleeps during the restart could be safely > eliminated. .. except that you can only wait/waitpid on children, not arbitrary processes. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
