cvs commit: src/lib/libutil Makefile libutil.h pidfile.3 pidfile.c

[John-Mark Gurney]

Robert Watson wrote this message on Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 06:05 +0100:
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> 
> >pjd         2005-08-24 17:21:38 UTC
> >
> > FreeBSD src repository
> >
> > Modified files:
> >   lib/libutil          Makefile libutil.h
> > Added files:
> >   lib/libutil          pidfile.3 pidfile.c
> > Log:
> > Add a family of functions for reliable pidfiles handling.
> >
> > Idea from:      jmg
> > Discussed on:   arch@
> 
> Something I'd very much like to see is for daemon pid files to start being 
> placed in /var/run/<daemon>/<daemon>.pid, as opposed to directly in 
> /var/run.  This will allow us to set specific ownership on the parent 
> directory for a pid file, so that privilege is not required to write out a 
> pid file in a safe place.

why not add an rc.subr option to precreate the file with the correct
user?  I was running up conserver, and I decided to run it as a seperate
user, and since I created it as owned by the conserver user, conserver
just opened and wrote to the file..

just a thought...

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