Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:44:39 -0701 From: Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com> To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libutil Makefile libutil.h pidfile.3 pidfile.c Message-ID: <20050826174501.GD89904@lizzy.catnook.local> In-Reply-To: <20050826102819.GB30747@eddie.nitro.dk> References: <200508241721.j7OHLcNP061118@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050825060448.Q11335@fledge.watson.org> <20050825154354.GE30465@funkthat.com> <20050825171046.X72462@fledge.watson.org> <430EE78A.8060306@FreeBSD.org> <20050826102819.GB30747@eddie.nitro.dk>
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On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 12:28:20PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > On 2005.08.26 02:57:30 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > > > All that said, and not to throw cold water on Pawel's work here, but I > > really am not sure that encouraging the use of pid files in this day and > > age is a good idea. IMO it's a bit of an artifact from a different era, and > > I would love to see us eliminate the use of pid files altogether. But > > that's just me. Hear, hear. > What would use use instead of pid files to determine which program to > stop and to prevent a deamon from starting up multiple times? babysit from /usr/ports/sysutils/mktool. See my previous post on cvs-all. -- Jos Backus jos at catnook.com
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