Hmm... I guess this really is going to be a major release.
I am very interested in hearing about this too. Is he correct,
was '-x' a no-op in previous releases? It made me feel awfully
good that I was using it. Now I will be apprehensive about
using it because it might do something ;^)
Phil
Jim Procter wrote:
> I couldn't actually see any code using this option in the source of 6.5.9,
> but there does seem to be some kind of polling in the 7.0.x beta. The problem
> is that there is nothing mentioned about actually monitoring the 'heartbeat',
> and any calls or status flags that could be used by a controlling process
> (like a cron job) to deal with any failures.
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