smbd as a daemon

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 09:13:46AM +0300, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 1:17 AM, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 06:51:45AM +0300, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> >> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Alexander Bokovoy <ab at samba.org> wrote:
> >> > I've created bug 10517. The bug now has all patches for master and 4.1.
> >> >
> >> > https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10517
> >>
> >> Jeremy, ping, patches are waiting for you in the bug 10517.
> >
> > Ok, finally got off my ass and took a look at
> > these.
> >
> > They're really nice (good job ! - even though I wanted
> > to hate them because of systemd :-). Just one question.
> >
> > They change the error returns from the daemons from
> > always (1) to a range of errno values. This seems to
> > be to be the correct thing to do, but I still fear
> > external dependencies on the error return... :-(.
> >
> > Alexander, presuade me it's ok, and I'll push
> > the changes :-) :-).
> (pasting the same anwer as in bugzilla):
> Although we never defined or documented our exit behavior explicitly,
> a convention was
> that anything non-zero is error. I've checked some older documentation
> and init scripts
> and everywhere we have
> 
>   $RETVAL -eq 0
> 
> condition (or inverse of that).
Friendly remainder: this patchset waits for final push. ;)

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/ Alexander Bokovoy