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Re: pidfile_lock(3)



On Sunday 20 March 2016 14:04:52 Roy Marples wrote:
> Updated patch with man page changes, including an example of it's use.
> Added pidfile_remove() which fixes the existing BUGS section.
> Added pidfile_close() so a forked process can close it safely.
> Made pidfile_read() visible so it's easy to obtain the PID to send a signal
> to.

Someone pointed out that these conflict with the FreeBSD libutil functions as 
the API is quite different.

Should I rename this to pidfilel_* or lpidfile_* or leave as is?

Roy


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