On Wed, 07.07.10 19:08, Joey Hess (jo...@debian.org) wrote: > Lennart Poettering wrote: > > PID files are simply broken. We probably shouldn't use them anyway, and > > alway rely on the bus name instead. > > And the current situation is that, in Debian, avahi currently uses a pid > file without even the arguably broken checks that start-stop-daemon makes. > And, even if systemd eventually solves the problem for avahi, Debian has > architectures where systemd will probably never run, but avahi does.
Well, from my perspective this is barely fixable, and the right fix is using systemd. Also, I don't care von non-Linux systems really. If some people do care about about them, then it is them who need to come up with patches which when good I'll then merge. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
