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.
+1 to that. -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ _______________________________________________ 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"
