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Revert 229667: After some discussion of this change, it seems it is

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better to leave the pidfile open where it was. Add a note to the
man page describing pidfile strategies to use if the daemon is to
be run as a user other than root.
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Guy Helmer 2012-01-25 14:50:12 +00:00
parent 5be9d54a2b
commit 704523b073
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00 
svn path=/head/; revision=230541
2 changed files with 7 additions and 3 deletions
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usr.sbin/daemon/daemon.8
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@ -59,6 +59,10 @@ Write the ID of the created process into the
using the
.Xr pidfile 3
functionality.
If the
.Fl u
option is used, the directory to contain the pidfile must be writable
by the specified user.
Note, that the file will be created shortly before the process is
actually executed, and will remain after the process exits (although
it will be removed if the execution fails).

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usr.sbin/daemon/daemon.c
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@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
if (argc == 0)
usage();
if (user != NULL)
restrict_process(user);
/*
* Try to open the pidfile before calling daemon(3),
* to be able to report the error intelligently
@ -94,9 +97,6 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
}
}
if (user != NULL)
restrict_process(user);
if (daemon(nochdir, noclose) == -1)
err(1, NULL);