From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 26 17:44:40 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E58D16A41F for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:44:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jos@catnook.com) Received: from w250.z064001178.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net (209-204-181-78.dsl.static.sonic.net [209.204.181.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E09F143D45 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:44:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jos@catnook.com) Received: (qmail 92960 invoked by uid 1000); 26 Aug 2005 17:45:01 -0000 Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:44:39 -0701 From: Jos Backus To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050826174501.GD89904@lizzy.catnook.local> Mail-Followup-To: cvs-all@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> <20050826102819.GB30747@eddie.nitro.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050826102819.GB30747@eddie.nitro.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libutil Makefile libutil.h pidfile.3 pidfile.c X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jos@catnook.com List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:44:40 -0000 On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 12:28:20PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > 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. Hear, hear. > What would use use instead of pid files to determine which program to > stop and to prevent a deamon from starting up multiple times? babysit from /usr/ports/sysutils/mktool. See my previous post on cvs-all. -- Jos Backus jos at catnook.com