Re: [Linux-ATM-General] br2684ctl - more pidfile problems

[seventh g. <sev...@gm...>]

On 9/4/07, Alex Zeffertt <aj...@ca...> wrote:
> seventh guardian wrote:
> > * when br2684ctl is used to create more than one interface it only
> > creates one pidfile, named after the last interface specified. So
> > there's no way to tell which daemon is responsible for the other
> > interfaces.
> [snip]
> > Comments?
> >
>
> Just an idea... you could have just one br2684ctl daemon, which writes
> one pidfile, and which determines which interfaces to create by reading
> a config file.
>
> To add or delete an interface you could add or delete a line from
> the config file and then send br2684ctl a SIGHUP.
>
> That seems clean (ish) to me....

I guess there's really no need to complicate things. The support for
specifying multiple interfaces is nothing more than a commodity that
came as an "unrequested bonus" for the original code. It serves no
purpose other than saving the user a couple of key strokes.

Yet, it makes the current code much more complicated than it should be
(and makes validating the options much more difficult, if not
impossible). A compact single-interface daemon should serve all
imaginable purposes and still be much more maintainable.

Cheers,
  Renato