Re: New library: libpidfile.

From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek (pjd_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 08/23/05

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To: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>

    On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:51:06PM +1000, Tim Robbins wrote:
    +> Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
    +>
    +> >I'd like to commit a small library for handling "pidfiles".
    +> This sounds like a good idea to me, but you might consider putting the functionality in libutil instead of creating a separate library.

    If you look at the perforce logs, you'll see it was in libutil at
    first.
    While I like libutil for some single functions (I added
    humanize_number(3) in there), but I don't like putting there
    everything.

    In my first concept (when it was part of libutil) I allocated memory
    to store needed informations, because I didn't wanted to use preallocated
    memory (someone linking libutil doesn't have to use pidfile
    functionality).
    Now, when it is a small library I can use preallocated memory and
    eliminate one point of potential failure.
    It also now has 4 functions, which makes it a good candidate of small,
    nice, lightweight library:) 

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