❦  9 novembre 2015 11:51 GMT, James Page <james.p...@ubuntu.com> :

> How would you feel about using:
>
> for pid in $(cat $PIDFILE); do
> if start-stop-daemon --help | grep -q "\-\-pid "; then
> start-stop-daemon --quiet --oknodo --stop \
> --retry 5 --pid $pid --exec $HAPROXY || ret=$?
> else
> if kill -0 $pid 2> /dev/null; then
> /bin/kill $pid || ret=4
> fi
> fi
> done
>
> This would preserve use of stop-start-daemon if the version installed
> supported --pid, and drop back to the kill approach if not.

Personally, I find this too hacky and not worth it. For example, if
start-stop-daemon sends its output to stderr (unlikely, but...), this
will break. Or if start-stop-daemon reduces its help message to only a
mention of the manual page.

Apollon, what do you think?
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