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

[Doug Barton]

On 02/05/2012 01:59, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:

> I seem to miss positives of the other approach. Leaving stale PIDs in
> pidfile is something we should avoid at all costs, so recommending that
> in the manual page is not the best recommendation. 

Which is worse ... potentially stale pidfiles that get cleaned up at
every boot, or stale directories that never do?

I'm also not sure why you think this method will leave behind a stale
pidfile. The idea is that the pidfile is pre-created with the ownership
that daemon is going to su to, for the express purpose of allowing it to
delete the pidfile when the process exits. If you're saying that this
method doesn't work then please point out the problem ASAP because
numerous ports rc.d scripts do this now.


Doug

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