Miguel Clara <miguelmclara%gmail.com@localhost> writes: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote: > >> I don't think we should refuse to stop, especially at shutdown. Instead >> there should a) be a fix - this is just broken or b) an explicit >> failure to restart. > > Broken? > > I tough this was by desing? Yes, I did mean broken. All programs that I know of can start and stop repeatedly, including routing protocol daemons, mail daemons, filesystems, and really everything else. It seems like an obvious requirement for normal operation. I can certainly see that this might have been a bit tricky, and don't fault people for putting it last, but I really don't see how it makes sense as a design. > In linux, and even freebsd dom0 xenstored can not be restarted, and the > init script does not attempt to stop it, IRRC this is how it works on linux > since 4.2 (I might be mistaken here). Do you understand why this is so hard to fix? Generally kernel interfaces deallocate on close and can be reopened.
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