Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 08:43:54 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libutil Makefile libutil.h pidfile.3 pidfile.c Message-ID: <20050825154354.GE30465@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20050825060448.Q11335@fledge.watson.org> References: <200508241721.j7OHLcNP061118@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050825060448.Q11335@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson wrote this message on Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 06:05 +0100:
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
>
> >pjd 2005-08-24 17:21:38 UTC
> >
> > FreeBSD src repository
> >
> > Modified files:
> > lib/libutil Makefile libutil.h
> > Added files:
> > lib/libutil pidfile.3 pidfile.c
> > Log:
> > Add a family of functions for reliable pidfiles handling.
> >
> > Idea from: jmg
> > Discussed on: arch@
>
> Something I'd very much like to see is for daemon pid files to start being
> placed in /var/run/<daemon>/<daemon>.pid, as opposed to directly in
> /var/run. This will allow us to set specific ownership on the parent
> directory for a pid file, so that privilege is not required to write out a
> pid file in a safe place.
why not add an rc.subr option to precreate the file with the correct
user? I was running up conserver, and I decided to run it as a seperate
user, and since I created it as owned by the conserver user, conserver
just opened and wrote to the file..
just a thought...
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