Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:50:04 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Importing djb's public domain daemontools? Message-ID: <86mx9msog3.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <CAETOPp1z0TJecz8kjDvf7trEOS5eogrcqEtDveUYzN=J-SvDNQ@mail.gmail.com> (Jos Backus's message of "Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:41:15 -0800") References: <CAETOPp2Wcww1_fPonru0c6XoX%2BAV_HWoGZKiEMvmY50a5%2ByxRQ@mail.gmail.com> <4F14E291.5090803@FreeBSD.org> <CAETOPp1z0TJecz8kjDvf7trEOS5eogrcqEtDveUYzN=J-SvDNQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com> writes: > If FreeBSD had a solid solution out of the box, all this pidfile hackery = in > the base system wouldn't be necessary. I always thought FreeBSD was about > good engineering. Perpetuating the pidfile mess in the base is not a sign > of good engineering. Software written by DJB hardly qualifies as "good engineering". PID files are well-known and well-tested, we have a solid implementation with a simple API (pidfile(3)), and a lot of our infrastructure depends on them (/etc/rc, newsyslog etc.) DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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