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On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Adam David wrote:

> PIDs gathered from /var/run should always be checked for validity before
> killing anyway. The old process could have left a stale pidfile without a
> new process being started. This can happen at any time, not only at reboot.

It is impossible.

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Andrey A. Chernov
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