James Antill <james.antill(a)redhat.com> writes:
> no; as already written, modern initsystems use non-forking
daemons
> where such checks are not needed anymore.
> ...
> pidfiles are ancient hacks not required by modern initsystems
> anymore.
That's just not true, for example:
http://www.initng.org/browser/initng-ifiles/trunk/initfiles/daemon/exim/l...
initng has code to deal with old daemons which do not have a --do-not-fork
option. E.g. they *can* look for a pidfile after some time and inject back
the pid.
Enrico