non-root process and PID files

[Dan Langille]

On 27 Oct 2003 at 17:39, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:

> Dan Langille wrote:
> 
> > If a process starts up and does a setuid, should it be writing the 
> > PID file before or after the setuid?
> > 
> > Two methods exists AFAIK:
> > 
> > 1 - write your PID immediately, and the file is chown root:wheel
> > 2 - write your PID to /var/run/myapp/myapp.pid where /var/run/myapp/
> >     is chown myapp:myapp
> > 
> > Of the two, I think #1 is cleaner as it does not require another 
> > directory with special permissions.
> 
> You may have problems removing the file on exit, though.

The plan was to not remove it.
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