On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 14:43 +1000, Mark Nottingham wrote: > Our management tools like processes to be idempotent; i.e., you should > be able to start or stop a process any number of times without it > throwing an error. > > Currently, Squid will return 1 if a squid process is already running > (upon start) and when there isn't one (upon -k shutdown). > > I'm writing a patch to change this behaviour, and the most reasonable > way to do it seems to be with a command-line option; I've somewhat > arbitrarily chosen -p. > > Does this seem reasonable? If so, I'll submit a patch shortly.
I would be happy with not needing an option to have idempotent start-and-stop behaviour; we could use an option to preserve the current behaviour (though that doesn't seem particularly useful). -Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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