Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling
Marc Haber wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:00:42 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen
> <pere@hungry.com> wrote:
>>[Marc Haber]
>>> I do not plan to do so for obvious reasons.
>>
>>It is not obvious for me. Can you explain why it should be obvious
>>that you do not plan to patch the daemon to write its own pid file?
>>For me, the obvious solution for a daemon unable to write its own pid
>>file is to patch the daemon.
>
> I generally try not to patch upstream code if avoidable. Especially if
> a patch would not be acceptable to upstream in the form we would apply
> as a quick fix (no command line option, hard-coded path to the pid
> file).
Then why don't you do it The Right Way (tm)?
It isn't hard to read command line arguments with options, see man
getopt(3?).
>
> Greetings
> Marc
>
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