On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 01/05/2012 14:48, Guy Helmer wrote:
>> Allow daemon(8) to run pidfile_open() before relenquishing privileges
>> so pid files can be written in /var/run when started as root.
>
> I'm not sure how useful this is since when daemon is exiting it won't be
> able to remove the pid file (unless I'm missing something).
>
> Isn't it better to pre-create the pid file with the proper permissions
> for the unprivileged user?
As another aside, the file descriptor never has fcntl(,
FD_CLOEXEC) run on it, so it leaks the file descriptors across execs..
that's not good...
Thanks,
-Garrett
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