[Xorp-hackers] PATCH: Remove some dead code, unlink pid-file on exit.

Bruce Simpson bms at incunabulum.net
Tue Oct 6 06:15:06 PDT 2009


Bruce Simpson wrote:
>  * Do you have a specific distribution which relies on the behaviour of 
> removing the pid file after the daemon terminates?
>     For the BSD distributions at least, when running XORP from an 
> rc.subr init script, this shouldn't be an issue; the file is just 
> ignored, and overwritten on the next run.
>     It's good filesystem hygeine to remove it, though.
>   

P.S. can you please raise a Trac enhancement request for this issue? Thanks.



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