[HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 15.07.10 11:45, Simo Sorce (ssorce at redhat.com) wrote:

> > > is this really an issue?  upstart (and systemd probably too) work
> > > best with non forking daemons so that the pidfile hack is not
> > > needed anymore.
> > 
> > systemd doesn't care about PID files. If daemons still write them it's
> > fine, but they don't matter.
> 
> You are completely disregarding the case an admin starts daemons
> manually. Often pid files are checked so that an admin starting a
> daemon manually does not make a mess, if the daemon was already
> running.

Well, if daemon writers still care about PID files they can do so. I am
just saying that systemd doesn't care, and has the information anyway.

Lennart

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