On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:00:42 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[Marc Haber] >> I do not plan to do so for obvious reasons. > >It is not obvious for me. Can you explain why it should be obvious >that you do not plan to patch the daemon to write its own pid file? >For me, the obvious solution for a daemon unable to write its own pid >file is to patch the daemon.
I generally try not to patch upstream code if avoidable. Especially if a patch would not be acceptable to upstream in the form we would apply as a quick fix (no command line option, hard-coded path to the pid file). Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834
