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# Tue Oct 21 16:04:30 2008 tlyu (Taylor Yu) - Ticket created
Subject: Apple patch to use pidfile (FreeBSD) for daemons
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This patch from Apple uses the FreeBSD pidfile API to create PID files
for daemons. We need to implement this in a cross-platform way.
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# Tue Oct 21 16:04:30 2008 tlyu (Taylor Yu) - Ticket 6213 MemberOf ticket 6204.
# Tue Oct 21 16:20:17 2008 Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com> - Correspondence added
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:12:20 -0500
From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com>
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Subject: Re: [krbdev.mit.edu #6213] Apple patch to use pidfile (FreeBSD) for daemons
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:04:30PM +0000, Tom Yu via RT wrote:
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> This patch from Apple uses the FreeBSD pidfile API to create PID files
> for daemons. We need to implement this in a cross-platform way.

Notes about Solaris and PID files:

- On Solaris daemons managed by SMF don't need PID files unless you
have utilities that need to know a daemon's PID so they can signal it
(for any purpose *other* than killing it or otherwise making it
exit).

- On Solaris PID files should live in /var/run, and if they really must
be in /etc/ then it must be possible to have a symlink in /etc
instead that points to /var/run/...

Nico
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