Re: pid file security

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

]] Russell Coker 

| > in other words, a service is _always_ run
| > in "foreground" mode.  if it dies (i.e. a segfault signal is caught),
| > the service is restarted automatically - by depinit (based on the
| > signal alone).  thus, the need for safe_mysql goes away entirely; the
| > need for "apache2ctl start" goes away (i.e. you use apache2 -c
| > FOREGROUND=True or whatever it is) and so on.  in this way, there
| > simply _is_ no need for a PID file, period.  the relevant state
| > information is contained within depinit itself, and you can guarantee
| > that depinit will catch the signal.
| 
| systemd does all that.

More importantly: systemd _allows_ them to do that, it doesn't require
them.  From the description of depinit, it sounds like it requires all
daemons to be modified.

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