Re: Parent/child choice in sslio

On Fri, 14 May 2004, Gerrit Pape wrote:

> The sslio program runs as a child process of the actual service program
> (here: smtpfront-qmail), as documented in the sslio man page.  Your patch
> changes that and lets the service program run as a child process of sslio.
> Although the current behavior might confuse you as a developer, I think it
> less confuses users, because the tcpsvd or tcpserver logs don't change,
> e.g.:
...
> The pid announced by tcpsvd is the pid of the service program, and also
> the exit code is the one of the service program.  If this would be the
> sslio process, I think it would cause more confusion.  sslio follows the
> example of recordio here.

OK, makes sense now. The exit code could have been relayed via waiting for 
the child, but the pids wouldn't match.

Thanks

Charlie