Re: Kernel Edgeplay

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 03:58:54PM -0700, Chris Babcock wrote:
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> Each of the daemon children grabs data off an input pipe, does a merge
> with a template supplied at creation, runs an SMTP conversation via a
> telnet process to the local mail server and lets the parent know when

why not using a 1-shot sendmail(8) process or SMTP session via eg socket(1)?

...
> The obvious problem here is that every child spawned off the main loop
> is using 6 or 9 processes at any time. When you add in the processes

you could use just 1 'killer' process, which checks eg /var/run/my-smtp/*.pid
stat(1)ing such *.pid and killing off those that timed out.

> do want to know if there's a better idiom for watching a process that
> I'm missing coming at the problem like a shell script. Also, if there's

check eg http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html for some idea.

HTH
-- 
paolo

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