On 27 Oct 2003 at 17:39, Oliver Eikemeier wrote: > Dan Langille wrote: > > > If a process starts up and does a setuid, should it be writing the > > PID file before or after the setuid? > > > > Two methods exists AFAIK: > > > > 1 - write your PID immediately, and the file is chown root:wheel > > 2 - write your PID to /var/run/myapp/myapp.pid where /var/run/myapp/ > > is chown myapp:myapp > > > > Of the two, I think #1 is cleaner as it does not require another > > directory with special permissions. > > You may have problems removing the file on exit, though.
The plan was to not remove it. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

