Re: [Aide-devel] SIGTERM

[Virolainen P. <pa...@cs...>]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Richard van den Berg wrote:

> Marc Haber wrote:
>> May I ask for the reason why aide ignores SIGTERM and prints a message
>> which tells the user to use SIGKILL? Besides from chancing semantics,
>> I fail to see one, but I might be wrong.
>
> Good question. Perhaps the original authors care to comment on this
> design decision?

I think this has something to do with the mmap support. One could truncate 
the file AIDE is calculating value of desired hash function value(s), and 
this might lead to aborting AIDE. (and it seems that AIDE is runs slower 
when mmapping is enabled with my current system(s))

Duke NEMO / C.O.M.A
alias pablo the pallo virolainen