Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I was wondering why tmda-ofmipd was doing this in the first
> place. It has a nasty side effect when started with supervise from
> the daemontools package. I found if I manually killed the hung root
> process, it immediately set up some kind of loop where copies of
> tmda-ofmipd were spawned out of control.

But is this a TMDAism or a daemontools-ism?  I've seen daemontools do
this on a number of occasions with other programs.

> I did a bit of hacking on tmda-ofmipd and added an extra option to
> daemonize the process. With this option, I don't need to use an '&'
> at the end of the command line to force tmda-ofmipd into the
> background.

[...]

> If this is something people feel might be generally useful, I'll
> submit a patch of the changes I've made. Any comments from the TMDA
> developers?

Just that I'd like to make sure such a change is necessary.  It might
very well be of course.  If no one else speaks up, I'll take a look at
this.

If you'd like to submit your patch, see http://tmda.net/bugs.html for
the preferred format.  Thanks.
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