Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 06:05:48 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libutil Makefile libutil.h pidfile.3 pidfile.c Message-ID: <20050825060448.Q11335@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <200508241721.j7OHLcNP061118@repoman.freebsd.org> References: <200508241721.j7OHLcNP061118@repoman.freebsd.org>
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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. Robert N M Watson
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