Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:54:59 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libutil Makefile libutil.h pidfile.3 pidfile.c Message-ID: <20050826215256.S33851@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <430EE78A.8060306@FreeBSD.org> References: <200508241721.j7OHLcNP061118@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050825060448.Q11335@fledge.watson.org> <20050825154354.GE30465@funkthat.com> <20050825171046.X72462@fledge.watson.org> <430EE78A.8060306@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Doug Barton wrote: > Frankly, the mtree stuff for BIND to do this is a hack, and I would much > rather see this generalized in a useful way in rc.subr. That way all > system stuff can just use it, and all ports can use it as they adopt > rc.subr style startup scripts. This would not be particularly difficult, > if there is wider interest in this, I can whip up a POC. Given that the > rc scripts run as root there shouldn't be any permissions problems to > overcome. My thought would be to simply default the name of the > directory in /var/run to be whatever the name of the script is, and the > file itself to be "pid" as named does it. The nice thing about using mtree is that it uses a data file format to hold the parameters -- the owner, group, permissions, etc, rather than encoding it in a script. I.e., that it is explicitly encoded information rather than implicit. Another nice thing about it is that it doesn't rely on creating the directory at run-time, but assumes it is part of the base install/configuration, and always present. I'm not generally a fan of setting up directory hierarchies by encoding that into scripst and programs, but rather making it an explicit entry in our existing directory database. Robert N M Watson
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