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Date:      Thu, 25 Aug 2005 06:05:48 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libutil Makefile libutil.h pidfile.3 pidfile.c
Message-ID:  <20050825060448.Q11335@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <200508241721.j7OHLcNP061118@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200508241721.j7OHLcNP061118@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:

> pjd         2005-08-24 17:21:38 UTC
>
>  FreeBSD src repository
>
>  Modified files:
>    lib/libutil          Makefile libutil.h
>  Added files:
>    lib/libutil          pidfile.3 pidfile.c
>  Log:
>  Add a family of functions for reliable pidfiles handling.
>
>  Idea from:      jmg
>  Discussed on:   arch@

Something I'd very much like to see is for daemon pid files to start being 
placed in /var/run/<daemon>/<daemon>.pid, as opposed to directly in 
/var/run.  This will allow us to set specific ownership on the parent 
directory for a pid file, so that privilege is not required to write out a 
pid file in a safe place.

Robert N M Watson



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