[syslinux] [PATCH] Create /var/run/tftpd-hpa.pid in standalone mode

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sat Jul 4 16:41:57 PDT 2009


Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> This is more a question than a serious proposal.  The name of the pid
> file should probably be configurable, and it should be unlinked on
> normal termination, but no such thing exists in standalone mode.
> SIGTERM and SIGINT should be catched and considered normal, I guess.

Actually, we probably should remove it even for abnormal termination...
we obviously can't do anything about SIGKILL, but for others (SIGQUIT,
SIGSEGV, ...) we probably should trap and remove the pid file...

	-hpa

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