>>>>> "nscott" == Nathan Scott <nscott@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
nscott> On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 13:26 +1000, Mark Goodwin wrote:
>>
>> Hi Nathan, yes that's definitely a regression; we'll get it
nscott> The patch I'm using atm is attached - its a minimal change. From
nscott> what I can tell, Max had a bunch of other PMDA kill logic in there
nscott> which has gone in 2.7.x - but I don't know any of the history here,
nscott> so can't help much more.
Killing logic was reworked to deal with pmcd being killed when pcp was
installed into chroot build environment, aka "serial killer" problem.
It just wasn't reworked sufficiently to deal with pecularies of rpm
and backward compatibility.
max
PS. Your patch is going to re-introduce the serial killer problem.
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