[PATCH] Write pid files for klogd, ntpd and watchdog

[Anthony G. Basile]

On 12/06/2012 02:15 AM, Laurent Bercot wrote:
>> couldn't we make it a config option?
>> Eventually also for syslogd.
>
>   That would work for me. I still believe this would be bloat in the
> source code, since the same behaviour can be achieved in 2 lines of
> shell; but at least I could disable it at compile-time.
>

There is already FEATURE_PIDFILE which "makes some applets (e.g. crond, 
syslogd, inetd) write a pidfile in /var/run".   I think the thing to do 
here is 1) make sure that all applets which run as daemons behave the 
same way with respect to pidfiles and 2) add another dependent option 
CONFIG_PID_FILE_PATH which allows one to configure the pid file path.  I 
think this should work for everyone.


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