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Re: [PATCH 4/4] Mark nscd service as forking in systemd service file (#16639)
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Russ Allbery <eagle at eyrie dot org>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 01:16:36 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] Mark nscd service as forking in systemd service file (#16639)
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On 02/27/2014 01:03 AM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com> writes:
>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:01:49AM +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
>
>>> Yeah, AFAICT this is never going to be completely fixed without either
>>> making the nscd daemon 'notify' or 'simple'; the former solution I
>>> personally dislike and the latter probably not possible for nscd.
>
>> Of course, the other obvious thing would be to have a pipe between the
>> parent and child nscd processes and have the parent exit only once the
>> child has indicated either failure or success. That would be a
>> complete solution with nscd as a forking service.
>
> Yup, that would work and has the advantage of being independent of init
> system, so it would also solve the problem for traditional init.
>
Agreed.
Cheers,
Carlos.