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Date:      Thu, 5 Jul 2001 14:26:27 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Chris Wasser <cwasser@v-wave.com>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: netbsd rc system diff
Message-ID:  <20010705142627.A38780@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010617150050.F582@skunkworks.arpa.mil>; from cwasser@v-wave.com on Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 03:00:50PM -0600
References:  <20010617150050.F582@skunkworks.arpa.mil>

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On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 03:00:50PM -0600, Chris Wasser wrote:

>  Attached is a diff to rc.subr which applies the aforementioned
> implementation. Ofcourse this isn't a end-all-be-all solution, ideally a
> specialized tool would be used to differentiate which is an actual
> parent process and which are children/threads.

I haven't been following this thread too closely, but if the goal is
to identify the parent PID of some service, then surely the best thing
to do is to record the PID in /var/run/*.pid at the time it is
started, so there is no ambiguity later on.

Kris

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