[distcc] load management

[Dan Kegel]

Martin Pool wrote:
>>That sounds like the way Microsoft thought when they were designing
>>ActiveX!
> 
> There's no call for that sort of language. :-)

Yeah, sorry, I knew I was hitting below the belt!

> I think what you have is just timidness, rather than well-founded
> concern.  

Probably.  As long as the user has to affirmatively give
an option or use a special command to get the sticky daemon,
it's probably ok.

> Where is the hole?  Or, in what way is automatically starting the
> daemon when an option is given any different from starting it
> manually?

People don't like it when you do things behind their back,
that's all.  (I especially hate library functions that
silently create threads.  I may be projecting here.)

- Dan

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