Developers of Sympa

[Guillaume Rousse <address@concealed>]

Le 05/08/2013 15:52, IKEDA Soji a écrit :
> > Bascally, those PID files or STDERR files are both temporary files of
> > the same class: they normally exist only during the lifetime of a single
> > process, and should be removed during normal process termination. If
> > they are left behind, that's because a crash occured, and they should be
> > removed on next process startup. So I think it makes sense to host both
> > kind of files on /var/run/sympa, and to use a single build-time
> > configuration directive for it. It could use a better name than PIDDIR,
> > however, such as RUNDIR for instance.
>
> It's in sense that PID files will be removed when the daemons
> stopeed normally.
As does the stderr ones, according to my own understanding of their purpose.

So, what's about my proposal ?
- use File::Temp for all create-and-forget files
- deprecated tmpdir configuration variable
- rename --piddir configure switch to --rundir
- use RUNDIR for both pid and stderr files

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Guillaume Rousse
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