[syslinux] tftpd-hpa and pidfile

[H. Peter Anvin]

Steve Brown wrote:
> On Mon, 18 May 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> 
>> Pascal Legrand <Pascal.Legrand at univ-orleans.fr> writes:
>>
>>> i've got a problem on lenny with tftpd-hpa
>>> When i launch it from /etc/init.d/tftpd-hpa start, there is no pidfile created.
>>> what is the way to get it ?
>> I doubt tftpd-hpa ever creates a pid file.
> 
> That would be the responsibility of the startup script 
> /etc/init.d/tftpd-hpa -- it's just a shell script.
> 

Not really.  A daemonizing process would have to create its own pidfile.

I'd certainly accept a patch to add a --pidfile option.

	-hpa