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Re: Pre-approval request for t-p-u upload of irqbalance/1.0.3-4



On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 10:43:57AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>On 08.11.2012 04:24, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
>>@@ -69,8 +68,7 @@
>>         start-stop-daemon --stop --retry 5 --quiet --oknodo --exec $DAEMON
>>         rm -f $PIDFILE
>> 
>>-        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --exec $DAEMON -- $OPTIONS $DOPTIONS
>>-        pidofproc $PNAME > $PIDFILE
>>+        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --exec $DAEMON -- --pid=$PIDFILE $OPTIONS $DOPTIONS
>
>I would recommend using start-stop-daemons --pidfile option (in addition
>to --exec) everywhere. Otherwise it will behave like killall.

That's what we want. IMO it doesn't make any sense to have two or more
instances of irqbalance running at the same time.

>The explicit removal of the pidfile in the init script doesn't look like
>it's necessary fwiw, as the source code already does an unlink of the
>pidfile. So you might consider removing the "rm" calls.
>I haven't tested this though, so please test/check this carefully.

When I tested it, irqbalance didn't remove /var/run/irqbalance.pid on
stop. If it's already present, irqbalance didn't update it on start.

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