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On Jan 16, 2012 6:53 PM, "Doug Barton" <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:
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> On 01/16/2012 12:53, Jos Backus wrote:
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> > Thoughts?
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> This is already available in ports.

I realize that.

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.

Jos

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