Marc Haber wrote: > 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).
Then why don't you do it The Right Way (tm)? It isn't hard to read command line arguments with options, see man getopt(3?). > > Greetings > Marc > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
