PID lockfile

[Ben Finney]

Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> writes:

> […] there's plenty of occasions when I want to start a daemon, as
> me, for my own personal purposes. It doesn't do any uid/gid juggling
> or privilege dropping, but it's a perfectly reasonable thing to want
> to use your daemon module to do everything else (detach, pid locks,
> etc).
> 
> Conbine that with "my home dir is NFS shared across our LAN" and
> you're instantly into routine lockfile-on-NFS land.

Yes, that's a simple use case that I do want to support. Thanks, I'll
see how best to accommodate it.

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Ben Finney