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From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
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Doug Hardie wrote:

> Most servers create a pid file.  It would be nice for there to be
> consistency in this.

A) This will never be consistent.
B) Relying on pid files for anything is not a good idea, there are too
many ways for it to go wrong.

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