[OpenAFS] afsd -rmtsys and shutdown

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org> writes:
>
>> So basically, what *should* happen is that afsd -shutdown should cause
>> it to die, bt doesn't, because it's a new invocation of afsd. So it
>> can't remember rmtsysd's pid
>
>> I could do something where a child like the afsd handler holds in a
>> syscall until it gets a shutdown call, and then kills rmtsysd by pid.
>
>> That's the best idea I have. Other thoughts?
>
> That would work.  We could also just write the PID to a file and have afsd
> -shutdown read it back from the file to kill the other process.

Sort of wretched. Not really more wretched than the thing I proposed but I 
considered and sort of made a face at it already