On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 03:57:46PM -0400, Jason wrote:
> Hi Steven,
>
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 12:29:31PM -0700, Steven Allen wrote:
...
> > + fprintf(fp, "%d\n", pid);
> > + fclose(fp);
> > + } else {
> > + fprintf(stderr, "Failed to open '%s' for writing\n", pidfile);
>
> I would exit fail here. If the user or a startup script expect a pid
> file to be created, then failing out is appropriate.
Oh, it might be helpful to parse errno here. Perhaps using strerror()
hth,
Jason.
