Recent discussions with Dejan made me again more prominently aware of a
few issues we probably all know about, but usually dismis as having not
much relevance in the real-world.
The facts:
* a pidfile typically only stores a pid
* a pidfile may stale, not properly cleaned up
when the pid
For the Assimilation code I use the full pathname of the binary from
/proc to tell if it's one of mine. That's not perfect if you're using
an interpreted language. It works quite well for compiled languages.
On 10/20/2014 01:17 PM, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
Recent discussions with Dejan made me
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 03:04:31PM -0600, Alan Robertson wrote:
On 10/20/2014 02:52 PM, Alan Robertson wrote:
For the Assimilation code I use the full pathname of the binary from
/proc to tell if it's one of mine. That's not perfect if you're using
an interpreted language. It works quite
On 10/20/2014 03:21 PM, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 03:04:31PM -0600, Alan Robertson wrote:
On 10/20/2014 02:52 PM, Alan Robertson wrote:
For the Assimilation code I use the full pathname of the binary from
/proc to tell if it's one of mine. That's not perfect if you're
