This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said: > On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:01:38 +0100, Wouter Verhelst > <wouter@debian.org> wrote: > >On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:24:46PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > >> Well, it's obvious it's the best approach if you're willing to do it. ;-) > > > >It's three lines of code to write a PID file, and it's the best approach > >to make sure you don't break stuff. > > How many seconds until the "please make pidfile location configurable" > wishlist bug? Which is another, what, 5-10 lines of code? > >> As a Debian packager, though, I would most likely just trust the authors > >> of start-stop-daemon and its --make-pidfile. > > > >--make-pidfile, --exec, and friends, are all ugly workarounds for buggy > >daemons that can't write a pidfile. > > And I think that it is less broken to use them than to patch > third-party software. Patching third-party software is the majority of what we do. Why is this a problem? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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