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Date:      Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:56:21 +0400 (MSK)
From:      Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To:        Andrey Zonov <andrey@zonov.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>, Guy Helmer <ghelmer@palisadesystems.com>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Mikolaj Golub <trociny@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r230869 - head/usr.sbin/daemon
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1202130055190.95888@woozle.rinet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <4F38240B.5040507@zonov.org>
References:  <20120205214647.GI30033@garage.freebsd.pl> <86sjiov29o.fsf@in138.ua3> <20120206082706.GA1324@garage.freebsd.pl> <86wr7zmy8f.fsf@kopusha.home.net> <20120206221742.GA1336@garage.freebsd.pl> <86liodu3me.fsf@in138.ua3> <20120208090600.GA1308@garage.freebsd.pl> <86sjihsln4.fsf@kopusha.home.net> <4F365C10.5050607@zonov.org> <861upz6fcg.fsf@kopusha.home.net> <20120212200253.GC1355@garage.freebsd.pl> <4F38240B.5040507@zonov.org>

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On Mon, 13 Feb 2012, Andrey Zonov wrote:

[snip]

> > Please don't. Even if you can't write the pidfile, you should run the
> > service. The same as for pidfile_open() failure as documented in
> > example. Feel free to warn about problem with writing to pidfile, but
> > don't treat it as critial error.
> 
> The problem is the following you cannot stop such a service with standard rc.d
> script and empty pidfile.

As for me, unstoppable (via standard way) service is at least slightly better 
than unstartable.

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck@FreeBSD.org ]
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