James Antill <james.antill@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > no; as already written, modern initsystems use non-forking daemons > > where such checks are not needed anymore. > > ... > > pidfiles are ancient hacks not required by modern initsystems > > anymore. > > That's just not true, for example: > http://www.initng.org/browser/initng-ifiles/trunk/initfiles/daemon/exim/listener.ii initng has code to deal with old daemons which do not have a --do-not-fork option. E.g. they *can* look for a pidfile after some time and inject back the pid. Enrico -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
