Hello mark,

Monday January 26 2015, mark lewis wrote to Michael Dukelsky:

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 ml> do you think that something like this might be able to be done for
 ml> other OSes?? and also for when operating as a seperate task? some time
 ml> back there was asked for semaphores which could be used to tell binkd
 ml> to freeze and close all its files when the current session(s) were
 ml> completed and it would then create a frozen semaphore signalling that
 ml> it was frozen and external maint tasks could be performed... then the
 ml> removal of the original freeze semaphore would signal binkd to return
 ml> to operation and remove its frozen semaphore that it had created...
 ml> these semaphores would be disk-based zero byte files in most cases...

As to me I don't think that all this is necessary. I have an init script for
binkd in CentOS 5, so
/etc/init.d/binkd stop and /etc/init.d/binkd start
do the job for me. But Pavel who is the binkd maintainer may have a different
opinion.

Michael

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