Re: unique IDs for connections to ipsvd programs

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Lasse Kliemann wrote:

> * Message by -Charlie Brady- from Wed 2007-11-07:
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>> You don't need a modification to tcpsvd to do what you want, however. You
>> can write 'uuid', which generates a uuid, puts in in an environment
>> variable, prints a message, ...
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> That's the problem. With many concurrent connections, these outputs will be
> garbled.

In what sense would they be/are they garbled?

> I presume that the design of ipsvd never intended to allow prog to
> write to the log (of the ipsvd process).

I don't think that's a reasonable presumption.

>> ... then execs the rest of its command line
>> arguments. Then instead of having 'prog ...' in your run script, you have
>> 'uuid prog ...'.
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