On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Tobias Burnus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> a) [PATCH]
> This patch does
> - Change "program is stopped" to "program is not running"
> for the "status" exit status codes in order to reduce possible
> confusion with "SIGSTOP"
>
> - Change the exit status code for "killproc" for the case that the
> program is not running:
> "0" if no signal is given (= TERM, wait, KILL; this is default use
> for "stop" and matches the exit code for "stop")
> "not 0" ("7"=program is not running) if a signal (such as HUP) is given
>
>
>
> b) Other things that should (probably) be added, but I didn't:
>
> - PID format: If multiple PIDs exists, they should be space separated
> in the PID file. (And this should be also the format used by
> pidofproc.)
>
> - killproc should remove the PID file it the program is no longer running.
> (This happens with signal KILL, send by default if TERM didn't work.)
> A bit clean-up is not bad, especially if the program cannot do anything
> about.
>
>
> Tobias
I've applied this patch, and will be posting a new WIP document shortly.
Stuart
[email protected] Free Standards Group
Lead Developer, Written Specification Linux Standard Base
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