[long] Recovery handling in TXN branch

[David Relson]

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 16:07:53 +0200
Matthias Andree wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Tom Anderson wrote:
> 
> > If you're using the daemon model, then a daemon process should check
> > for its own lockfile before starting.  Only one bogofilter daemon
> > should be running at any one time.  Ping the pid specified in the
> > lockfile with a signal and wait for the predetermined reply (TBD). 
> > If no reply is heard, do recovery and start the daemon.  If a reply
> > is heard, simply quit.  This should handle the reboot situation.
> 
> OK, if there is a special PING protocol, that might work.
> 
> We don't have server-client code in place however, and if I were to
> change one feature at a time, I'd need to do the daemon first,
> however, deadlock avoidance after crash is a more pressing issue OTOH.

Once upon a time (up through version 0.8), bogofilter included ESR's
autodaemon code.  I've got copies if you want it.

David