Re: AWKing for PIDs (was Re: NetBSD style rc.d scripts?)

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003, Theo de Raadt wrote:

> pid files are the files that contain a pid, that oh, shit, it isn't

Although I've seen some discussion about alternatives, each of them has some (other) disadvantages.

> pid files are totally idiotic. They're based on the principle of

A coworker suggested to lock the pid file (of course using a lock mechanism that removes the lock when the process dies).

I'm interested in other/better proposals. Received on Fri Jan 31 11:52:03 2003