From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 14 02:43:22 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57670106566B for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 02:43:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jos@catnook.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F8118FC0A for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 02:43:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws11 with SMTP id 11so735310vws.13 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:43:21 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.113.67 with SMTP id iw3mr6411206vdb.121.1318558561473; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:16:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.188.35 with HTTP; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:16:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.188.35 with HTTP; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:16:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <86mxd59e1v.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <86pqi1b1qp.fsf@ds4.des.no> <864nzdaw7b.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20111013134841.GF1667@garage.freebsd.pl> <86mxd59e1v.fsf@ds4.des.no> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:16:01 -0700 Message-ID: From: Jos Backus To: current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: incorrect use of pidfile(3) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 02:43:22 -0000 Why not import daemontools? It's public domain these days. Pidfiles are a hacky mess. UNIX already has a way to track processes which avoids all these issues, with very little overhead. Jos