On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:18:35PM -0700, Andrew Evans wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 16:41 -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > Deleting the pidfile introduces a minor race: if some other process is
> > starting a daemon at the same time that the init script is stopping the
> > same daemon, then this could
On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 16:41 -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Deleting the pidfile introduces a minor race: if some other process is
> starting a daemon at the same time that the init script is stopping the
> same daemon, then this could delete the new daemon's pidfile.
>
> This is really a theoretical ri
Deleting the pidfile introduces a minor race: if some other process is
starting a daemon at the same time that the init script is stopping the
same daemon, then this could delete the new daemon's pidfile.
This is really a theoretical risk, because no one should be starting and
stopping a single da
