Hi,
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 09:57 -0400, Ed Cashin wrote:
> Thanks for pointing out your motivations. And please feel free to
> post patches after reading the HACKING file. Even if a patch doesn't
> go right in, it can still be a help to folks by being distributed in
> the "contrib" directory. So
Thanks for pointing out your motivations. And please feel free to
post patches after reading the HACKING file. Even if a patch doesn't
go right in, it can still be a help to folks by being distributed in
the "contrib" directory. Some existing features started out that way
and migrated into the v
Hi Ed,
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 14:16 -0400, Ed Cashin wrote:
> If vbladed wasn't already done, this issue would be more interesting,
> but since the functionality is already present, it's probably only
> worth discussing if there are some specific significant shortcomings
> of vbladed. The fact th
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:39:30AM -0700, kelsey hudson wrote:
> Ed Cashin wrote
> > With "vbladed", I was probably influenced by Dan Bernstein, who says
> > that a process should not daemonize itself when an external program
> > could do it if and when necessary. It certainly does tend to make th
Ed Cashin wrote
> With "vbladed", I was probably influenced by Dan Bernstein, who says
> that a process should not daemonize itself when an external program
> could do it if and when necessary. It certainly does tend to make the
Dan Bernstein also says it's OK to do things like put binaries in /v
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:44:42PM +0800, Tim Post wrote:
...
> > With "vbladed", I was probably influenced by Dan Bernstein, who says
> > that a process should not daemonize itself when an external program
> > could do it if and when necessary. It certainly does tend to make the
> > C code cleane
Hi,
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 08:26 -0400, Ed Cashin wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 02:53:49PM +0800, Tim Post wrote:
> > Sorry, typo:
> >
> > On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 14:50 +0800, Tim Post wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I was wondering why vblade used a helper script and logger instead of
> > > using
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 02:53:49PM +0800, Tim Post wrote:
> Sorry, typo:
>
> On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 14:50 +0800, Tim Post wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was wondering why vblade used a helper script and logger instead of
> > using daemon() and syslog() directly? Also, why not use posix_fadvse()
> > with
Sorry, typo:
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 14:50 +0800, Tim Post wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering why vblade used a helper script and logger instead of
> using daemon() and syslog() directly? Also, why not use posix_fadvse()
> with POSIX_FADV_RANDOM when -d (O_DIRECT) is not specified? I have a
> very cl
