On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 09:46:31 -0700 (PDT) Roger Marquis wrote: > RW via freebsd-ports wrote: > > It needs both. It won't use just the pid file because the pid > > might have been reassigned to another process if the original daemon > > died without deleting its pid file. > > Why would this rc script *require* a command_interpreter variable to > use the pidfile variable? I'm curious because this violates KIS, the > principle of least surprise and few rc scripts seem to have this > variable defined. > > Using command_interpreter is good to be sure, for for the reason > listed, but rc scripts should not fail if it is undefined.
IIRC the name is always checked. When an interpreted script is run using a shebang the command in the output of ps doesn't match the command used to start the script, so command_interpreter is needed to get a match. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
