Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:28:20 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libutil Makefile libutil.h pidfile.3 pidfile.c Message-ID: <20050826102819.GB30747@eddie.nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <430EE78A.8060306@FreeBSD.org> References: <200508241721.j7OHLcNP061118@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050825060448.Q11335@fledge.watson.org> <20050825154354.GE30465@funkthat.com> <20050825171046.X72462@fledge.watson.org> <430EE78A.8060306@FreeBSD.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 2005.08.26 02:57:30 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > All that said, and not to throw cold water on Pawel's work here, but I > really am not sure that encouraging the use of pid files in this day and > age is a good idea. IMO it's a bit of an artifact from a different era, and > I would love to see us eliminate the use of pid files altogether. But > that's just me. What would use use instead of pid files to determine which program to stop and to prevent a deamon from starting up multiple times? -- Simon L. Nielsen [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDDu7Dh9pcDSc1mlERAqh3AKC1b+5NK2Knsj/toe/NXoKSDxkaGQCeMW8E /9Fs2Tq2yoVSVTJtcHxXUZA= =yc6o -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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