On Thursday 24 March 2016 10:25:20 Brett Lymn wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 02:13:01PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote: > > None of my (plenty) diskless machines does that - /var/run is not > > performance critical, so why bother? > > Because it automagically gets cleared out when the machine reboots so > you don't have to worry about stale pid files?
We mainly worry about stale pidfiles due to the application crashing rather than rebooting. See here: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2016/03/21/msg009799.html Roy
