Wrong Handling of pid files (example: fcgiwrap) forces single user mode. Am I correct?

[Matthew Seaman]

On 2017/06/02 11:02, BBlister wrote:
> The problem is that if the ${pidfile} does not exist then this command
> returns the PID 1 among other PIDS, like this:
> 
> /bin/ps -o ppid= $(cat /var/run/fcgiwrap/fcgiwrap.pid)
> 
> cat: /var/run/fcgiwrap/fcgiwrap.pid: No such file or directory
> 72303
>     1
> 71730
> 72092
>     1
>     1
>     1
>  
> and then using a command  kill -TERM -- -${fcgiwrap_pgrp}
> terminates all these pids.

Please can you open a PR at https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ detailing
your findings?  This is something that should be fixed in the fcgiwrap
port, and it is quite possible that other RC scripts also have the same
flaw.

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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