Re: Making start/stop idempotent

Well, here's a patch for the behaviour I described...

On 12/08/2008, at 2:49 PM, Robert Collins wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 14:43 +1000, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> Our management tools like processes to be idempotent; i.e., you
>> should
>> be able to start or stop a process any number of times without it
>> throwing an error.
>>
>> Currently, Squid will return 1 if a squid process is already running
>> (upon start) and when there isn't one (upon -k shutdown).
>>
>> I'm writing a patch to change this behaviour, and the most reasonable
>> way to do it seems to be with a command-line option; I've somewhat
>> arbitrarily chosen -p.
>>
>> Does this seem reasonable? If so, I'll submit a patch shortly.
>
> I would be happy with not needing an option to have idempotent
> start-and-stop behaviour; we could use an option to preserve the
> current
> behaviour (though that doesn't seem particularly useful).
>
> -Rob
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