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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2014-05-22 16:15:56 +0900
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2014-06-18 12:34:16 -0400
commit977df069dc76174e5eee2e5e79728dd8a50a88ad (patch)
tree69e81d573c13bf923b084da4c73e7bce6cbf7206 /man
parentc194931d2eac3d81cf5d0fd388ea1ae58cae0ebd (diff)
man: drop reference to file locking for PID file creation from daemon(7)
File locking is usually a bad idea, don't suggest using it. (cherry picked from commit c4b834a4adfa4f858ed9fd07b300588ec1c3e20e) (cherry picked from commit ab28d5c3ed99817a76607f88e99d6d60feaf22c2)
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/daemon.xml b/man/daemon.xml
index 932de3b47..170949e71 100644
--- a/man/daemon.xml
+++ b/man/daemon.xml
@@ -158,9 +158,7 @@
it is verified at the same time that
the PID previously stored in the PID
file no longer exists or belongs to a
- foreign process. Commonly, some kind of
- file locking is employed to implement
- this logic.</para></listitem>
+ foreign process.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>In the daemon process,
drop privileges, if possible and