Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 00:48:30 -0400 From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libutil Makefile libutil.h pidfile.3 pidfile.c Message-ID: <20050827044830.GA46755@green.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <20050826181815.GA56936@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <200508241721.j7OHLcNP061118@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050825060448.Q11335@fledge.watson.org> <20050825154354.GE30465@funkthat.com> <20050826181815.GA56936@dragon.NUXI.org>
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On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 11:18:15AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:43:54AM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > Robert Watson wrote this message on Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 06:05 +0100: > > > 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. > > Yuck! Directory hell to find information. Yeah, at least make it /var/run/<daemon>/pid or something :-( -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green@FreeBSD.org \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\
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