Re: Making start/stop idempotent

On 12/08/2008, at 3:50 PM, Robert Collins wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 15:30 +1000, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> Well, here's a patch for the behaviour I described...
>
> A patch for 3.x would be nice;

I'll see what I can do, but undoubtedly I'll be slower than others...

> your patch seems fine on the surface, but
> adding an option does just seem ugly to me :)

Agreed, but I wasn't sure how important staying compatible with
current behaviour is for others... IME messing with startup/shutdown
behaviour should be done cautiously...

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