[Ocfs2-tools-devel] Review of the o2hbmonitor sem patch

[Sunil Mushran]

On 12/09/2010 11:16 AM, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 06:58:29PM -0800, Sunil Mushran wrote:
>> Also, if we cannot determine its status, launch o2hbmonitor after printing
>> a message to stderr. Not syslog. All of this should be upfront. Not after
>> we open syslog.
> 	You definitely want to syslog.  Maybe stderr too, but what if it
> scrolls off the boot screen?  This is a daemon, and it should also
> record details in syslog.

Well this specific error will only be printed if another instance of
o2hbmonitor is running. Why can't we print and exit before we even
daemonize?