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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
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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