New library: libpidfile.

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 05:45:40PM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
+> > /me just checked NetBSD and OpenBSD's code at:
+> > http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libutil/pidfile.c?rev=1.7&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
+> > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libutil/pidfile.c?rev=1.7&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
+> > 
+> > Neither, of these are safe to prevent multiple daemons from starting
+> > up at the same time...  Both NetBSD and OpenBSD doesn't even check if
+> > a daemon is running.. it just blindly splats the pid into the file..
+> 
+> Of course, giving advices is much easier than doing the real work,
+> but I dare suggest cooperation with NetBSD and OpenBSD on this issue
+> so that eventually we have a good and compatible implementation of
+> the pidfile API in *BSD.  I believe that the NetBSD and OpenBSD
+> folks won't take offence if approached with a well-grounded explanation
+> of why their current pidfile functions suck.

They are of course free to adpot pidfile(3) and I'll gladly provide
all needed explanations if they'll ask me.

-- 
Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd at FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
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