On Feb 4, 2012, at 1:42 AM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 04:41:00PM +0000, Guy Helmer wrote: >> Author: ghelmer >> Date: Wed Feb 1 16:40:59 2012 >> New Revision: 230869 >> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/230869 >> >> Log: >> Change the notes about the pidfile to include Doug's preference >> for pre-creating the pidfile with appropriate owner and permissions. >> >> Requested by dougb > > Pre-creating pidfiles? That sounds weird. The common practise is to turn > eg. /var/run/<name>.pid into /var/run/<name>/pid where <name> directory > has appropriate permissions. Pre-creating pidfiles is simply wrong, > because applications create pidfile on start and unlink it on exit. > If application has no permission to remove files from /var/run/ it will > leave pidfile with stale PID in it, which is bad. Changing application > to truncate pidfile on exit instead of unlinking it also is a bad idea > especially because there is working solution - pid directory.
I prefer this approach, but dougb prefers the other approach. Each has positives and negatives. I tried to accommodate both approaches. Guy-------- This message has been scanned by ComplianceSafe, powered by Palisade's PacketSure. _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
