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

[Robert Watson]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Brooks Davis wrote:

> This is probably a good idea for system daemons, but I'm not sure 
> there's much point in encouraging it for ports.

I think we'll find that more and more third party applications do know how 
to do this as a result of tight integration of selinux into upcoming Linux 
releases.  By placing pid files in separate directories, you avoid needing 
to grant fairly broad rights on the directory itself.  While you can 
pre-create pidfiles, other things like sockets generally can't be 
precreated in trivial ways without granting large amounts of privilege to 
the daemon when it starts running.

Robert N M Watson