Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:18:15 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libutil Makefile libutil.h pidfile.3 pidfile.c Message-ID: <20050826181815.GA56936@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <20050825154354.GE30465@funkthat.com> References: <200508241721.j7OHLcNP061118@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050825060448.Q11335@fledge.watson.org> <20050825154354.GE30465@funkthat.com>
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On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:43:54AM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > 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. Yuck! Directory hell to find information. > 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... I like this thought better and feel its more along traditional ways. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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