On 02/02/2012 13:45, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 09:22:22PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I thought this bug was fixed back in 2009?
>> root@kg-v7# uname -a
>> FreeBSD kg-v7.kg4.no 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #7: Sat Jul 9 23:00:31
>> CEST 2011 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>> root@kg-v7#
>> root@kg-v7# service devd status
>> devd is running as pid 555.
>> root@kg-v7# service devd restart
>> Stopping devd.
>> Starting devd.
>> devd: devd already running, pid: 555
>> /etc/rc.d/devd: WARNING: failed to start devd
>> root@kg-v7# service devd status
>> devd is not running.
>>
>> What gives?
>
> This is probably "what gives", as it's a common problem with all sorts
> of daemons and is not specific to devd in the least:
>
> - devd is running (pid 555)
> - Admin issues "service devd restart"
> -- devd is sent SIGTERM; devd internally starts shutting down,
> but is not fully dead yet. "kill" does not block (wait) for
> processes to end, obviously
No, but wait_for_pids() does.
The OP's /etc is out of date.
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