New fedora-rpmdevtools: cleanup old stuff

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Mon Mar 21 07:55:29 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 04:48 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:30:28 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> 
> > This is longer but more "fixed":
> >   GCONF_PIDS=`pidof gconfd-2`
> >   if [ x"$GCONF_PIDS" != "x" ]; then 
> >     kill -HUP $GCONF_PIDS
> >   fi
> > 
> > Is the cleanliness worth the verbosity?

IIRC someone pointed out in this thread that the -HUP might not a good
idea in the first place in some circumstances...?

> gconfd_pids=$(pidof gconfd-2) && kill -HUP $gconfd_pids

This will break the same way as the original killall -HUP when there's
no gconfd-2 running (pidof exits with non-zero).  Another quick "fix":

gconfd_pids=$(pidof gconfd-2) && kill -HUP $gconfd_pids || :




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