Our management tools like processes to be idempotent; i.e., you should
be able to start or stop a process any number of times without it
throwing an error.
Currently, Squid will return 1 if a squid process is already running
(upon start) and when there isn't one (upon -k shutdown).
I'm writing a patch to change this behaviour, and the most reasonable
way to do it seems to be with a command-line option; I've somewhat
arbitrarily chosen -p.
Does this seem reasonable? If so, I'll submit a patch shortly.
Cheers,
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Mark Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
