'Twas brillig, and David Timothy Strauss at 16/12/13 08:04 did gyre and gimble: > If we supported PIDFile= for Type=simple, daemons could drop a PID > file to indicate startup completion without having to be full-on > Type=forking.
Yeah but pidfile is kinda ugly too and has problem when processes are run as other users (requiring corresponding tmpfiles to create appropriately name directores). The amount of code/hassle for proper pid file handling is surely more complex than sd-notify support? Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/ _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
