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- From: Christophe.Wolfhugel@univ-lyon1.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: Finger and .plan, .project
- Date: 26 Jul 1992 15:06:20 +0200
- Organization: INSA Informatique, Lyon, France
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- scotth@felix.filenet.com (Scott Hopson) writes:
- > [use a named pipe]
- > You must be sure that this daemon gets started after your system
- > is rebooted or readers like "finger" will hang.
-
- You can't be sure that the daemon will still be around when someone
- will be fingering you. It's not because you start it a boot time
- (first you need priviledge to do this) that it will still be in the
- air two days later.
-
- Second, just imagine if I'd allow that to my 300+ users? Do you really
- except a SA can tolerate 300 permanent processes for just nothing?
-
- A viable solution would be to change the fingerd to something that
- fits your need. It's as easy to do as the replacement code you have
- proposed and it has the advantage to generate one active process
- per finger!
-
- Please folks, don't use named pipes for you finger stuff, this is
- not the good approach.
-
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- Christophe Wolfhugel | Email: Christophe.Wolfhugel@univ-lyon1.fr
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