Importing djb's public domain daemontools?

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Jos Backus <jos at catnook.com> writes:
> If FreeBSD had a solid solution out of the box, all this pidfile hackery in
> the base system wouldn't be necessary. I always thought FreeBSD was about
> good engineering. Perpetuating the pidfile mess in the base is not a sign
> of good engineering.

Software written by DJB hardly qualifies as "good engineering".  PID
files are well-known and well-tested, we have a solid implementation
with a simple API (pidfile(3)), and a lot of our infrastructure depends
on them (/etc/rc, newsyslog etc.)

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no