[Glibc-bsd-devel] sysvinit

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:41:55AM -0400, Nathan Hawkins wrote:
> >
> > Now they start properly, the problem is when stopping them, do you have
> > more notes or patches for this ? I'll continue if you are not working on
> > this anymore.
> 
> The cause of the problems I saw, is that pid_is_exec() is broken in
> start-stop-daemon. This is why some daemons start and stop fine, and
> others don't work. When --exec is the only thing it has to go on, it
> fails on freebsd-i386.
> 
> I was working on a implementation of pid_is_exec() with sysctl.  I've
> got working code, but didn't get it integrated into start-stop-daemon.

Btw, I reported this (without patch) as bug #196158 (just in case you want
to CC -quiet@b.d.o)

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