On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Vincent Bernat <ber...@debian.org> wrote: > > > > > I don't think this is compatible with multiple HAProxy processes > > (nbproc > 1). See how we do that when start-stop-daemon doesn't > > support --pid: > > > > > > Hmm - so start-stop-daemon will generate multiple pids into the > > pidfile when nbproc > 1? > > No, haproxy will write multiple PID to the pidfile when nbproc > 1 (in > haproxy.cfg). I don't think that start-stop-daemon is able to handle > multiple PID in pidfile, hence the loop. >
Right - I see; I guess the benefit of using start-stop-daemon is that it will only kill haproxy processes, whereas the kill loop is indiscriminate.
