Re: New library: libpidfile.

From: Yar Tikhiy (yar_at_comp.chem.msu.su)
Date: 08/25/05

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    Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:47:35 +0400
To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>

    On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 07:14:37PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
    > On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 05:45:40PM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
    > +> >
    > +> > 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.

    And what if they miss your effort and don't ask you in the first
    place? My point is that a bit of good will won't hurt when we see
    evidently rotten code in other projects and have a better solution
    to offer. This is particularly true for *BSD since we all grow
    from the same root. In addition, by taking the initiative you'll
    encourage *BSD folks to provide useful feedback on your work. To
    my mind, it is a wonderful opportunity that as little as a mere
    email can help to make *BSD a tad better and more compatible. 

    -- 
Yar
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