On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 23:56, Herbert Xu wrote: > >> * Change /sbin/pump to: > >> * Store PID in /run, not in /var/run
> I won't debate whether this is true in general, bug it is certainly > unnecessary in the case of pump. I have specifically added code to > deal with the inability to write to /var/run by making pump fall back > to using TCP sockets. Unnecessary; but would using /run for the pidfile be a better (e.g., simpler) solution? If not then do you think the TCP-socket approach is the way to deal with every program that writes a pidfile when /var/ may be absent? -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
