IL Ka <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > pid files can easily get out of sync with the expected process (example: > > daemon starts, writes a pid file, later it crashes. at any point between > > the crash and you trying to stop/restart the daemon another process > > could be assigned the same pid, then the wrong process is signalled). > > > > Wow, I've never thought about that) > pidfiles are so common on unicies, and mentioned in docs like "standard" > approach: > For example: http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Management.html > # using kill to send the signal > kill -HUP `cat /tmp/project-master.pid` > > Is it because other OSes do not randomize pids as OpenBSD does (they use > sequental pids) > so chances for pid reuse are lower there? > > Or do they simply "do not care"?
They do not care.
