Re: mkiss lock file bug

From: Craig Small (jjjna@git.co.za)
Date: Fri Jun 08 2001 - 09:25:06 EEST

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    On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:15:55AM -0800, Christopher George wrote:
    > Friends,
    > I don't know if I'm behind times so forgive me if
    > somebody has already brought this one up. In writing
    > sys V init scripts for mkiss I discovered that mkiss
    > didn't write the right PID to it's lock files. I am
    > using mkiss from ax25-tools-0.0.8. I traced the

    I've submitted the bug into the sourceforge bug system so we can track
    it. Is the problem that the pid it is writing is the parent pid, not
    the child?

    For people wondering specifically they can do to help the ax25 packages,
    heres a good example to look into.

    > Anyway, just thought I'd mention that. Also,
    > I noticed that mkiss and kissattach do not clean up
    > their lock files when they are killed. Changing
    > things to do this could affect quite a bit of the
    > code--if you want to keep things efficient.
    The daemon should do that, if it doesn't then it needs to be changed.

      - Craig 

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