On 10/18/06, Martin Baehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hmm, i think it might make sense to have fish never try to reconnect to > fishd if it fails in the beginning. (as opposed to intermediate failures) > then the confusion would not arise. the feature would simply not exist. > > this would make running fishd simply optional, which might appeal to > some people who may find that having a daemon is a strange concept for a > shell. (i have no idea if such people exist :-) > > also it would avoid those issues you describe. ie: either with, or > without, but not a mixture. sometimes running with, and sometimes > without i think is an unusual corner case that you don't normally want > anyways.
Unfortunatly, I think it's a bad idea to not reconnect to fishd, since you may want to restart fishd when upgrading fish, for example if the fishd configuration file location would change. It would be very bad if such an upgrade would disconnect all running shells from fishd permanently... Also, I'm not very big on options, so I don't want to go down the 'optional fishd'-path unless there are very good reasons for it. As for the objection that you need a daemon for running the shell, the daemon automatically shuts down as soon as the last fish process exits, and it only listens to a local socket, which can only be read/written to by the user and by root, so I don't see any valid reasons for not accepting the daemon. (I realise you aren't saying there are such reasons either) > > greetings, martin. > -- > cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix > offering: programming, training and administration - anywhere in the world > -- > pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org > unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at > administrator (caudium|gotpike).org is.schon.org > Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/ > -- Axel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
