Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:00:11 +0000 (UTC) From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r184092 - head/lib/libutil Message-ID: <200810201800.m9KI0BQG077294@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: des Date: Mon Oct 20 18:00:11 2008 New Revision: 184092 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/184092 Log: pidfile(3) uses flopen(3) - don't make any assumptions about how the latter is implemented. Modified: head/lib/libutil/pidfile.3 Modified: head/lib/libutil/pidfile.3 ============================================================================== --- head/lib/libutil/pidfile.3 Mon Oct 20 17:41:08 2008 (r184091) +++ head/lib/libutil/pidfile.3 Mon Oct 20 18:00:11 2008 (r184092) @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd August 22, 2005 +.Dd October 20, 2008 .Dt PIDFILE 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -51,16 +51,14 @@ The .Nm pidfile family of functions allows daemons to handle PID files. It uses -.Xr flock 2 +.Xr flopen 3 to lock a pidfile and detect already running daemons. .Pp The .Fn pidfile_open function opens (or creates) a file specified by the .Fa path -argument and locks it with the -.Xr flock 2 -system call. +argument and locks it. If a file can not be locked, a PID of an already running daemon is returned in the .Fa pidptr @@ -233,16 +231,17 @@ function may also fail and set .Va errno for any errors specified for the .Xr close 2 , -.Xr flock 2 , .Xr fstat 2 , .Xr write 2 , and .Xr unlink 2 -calls. +system calls and the +.Xr flopen 3 +library function. .Sh SEE ALSO -.Xr flock 2 , .Xr open 2 , -.Xr daemon 3 +.Xr daemon 3 , +.Xr flopen 3 .Sh AUTHORS .An -nosplit The
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