svn commit: r230869 - head/usr.sbin/daemon

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2012, Andrey Zonov wrote:

[snip]

> > Please don't. Even if you can't write the pidfile, you should run the
> > service. The same as for pidfile_open() failure as documented in
> > example. Feel free to warn about problem with writing to pidfile, but
> > don't treat it as critial error.
> 
> The problem is the following you cannot stop such a service with standard rc.d
> script and empty pidfile.

As for me, unstoppable (via standard way) service is at least slightly better 
than unstartable.

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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