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Re: [gpsd-dev] sequential startup and stale pid file
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Eric S. Raymond |
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Re: [gpsd-dev] sequential startup and stale pid file |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Mar 2015 08:54:34 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
Kiiski, Janne (EXT-Espotel - FI/Oulu) <address@hidden>:
> I still think that gpsd should not touch existing pid file until
> "show-stopper" initialization is done (initialization code paths which
> leads to exit(EXIT_FAILURE)).
That'd be nice, but it seems to me that the file needs to be created
before the first rivalrous resourece is claimed. What failure mode
are you actually seeing?
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