[Nut-upsdev] Autodetecting running drivers by the 'upsd' server

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Wednesday 06 June 2007 21:18, Arjen de Korte wrote:
> > The server could periodically look for new sockets (and/or on
> > SIGHUP).
>
> I'm not in favor of periodically looking for new sockets. If you
> don't start additional drivers, it is pointless to check for new
> sockets regularly. A better option would be for the drivers to send a
> SIGHUP to the server on startup (if a 'upsd.pid' file is found),
> which we already honor. The prerequisite that drivers and server are
> running under the same UID is satisfied most of the time (if not
> always) anyway, since they will have to communicate to one another.
> The bonus here is, that we might send a SIGHUP to the server on
> intentional termination of the driver too, so that it wouldn't be
> checking for stale sockets forever. This opens the way for true
> hot(un)plugging of drivers.

Sounds like a good plan to me!

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