[Ocfs2-tools-devel] [PATCH 1/2] o2hbmonitor: Disk heartbeat monitor

[Joel Becker]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:16:23AM +0800, Tristan Ye wrote:
> Srinivas Eeda wrote:
> > On 11/10/2010 10:20 AM, Srinivas Eeda wrote:
> >>> How about adding signal handler here since the daemon always being 
> >>> killed by signal:
> >>>     
> >> I agree. I'll add the signal handler.
> > I just realized that users usually kill with SIGKILL which cannot be 
> > caught. Also, there is not much to cleanup other than removing the 
> > file which is not preventing from spawning a new process.
> 
> Indeed, 'kill -9' is preferred by most of users.

	And they are wrong.  Anytime you see someone starting with 'kill
-9', hit them with a shovel.  Please do not train people to do this
broken thing.

Joel

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