Re: [Sshguard-maintainers] [Sshguard-users] SSHGuard 1.6.3 release announcement

[Willem J. W. <wj...@di...>]

On 01/04/2016 12:13, Mark Felder wrote:
On 4-1-2016 21:33, Kevin Zheng wrote:

>>>     - Remove PID file option
>>
>> ... Why? The rc scripts on FreeBSD heavily rely on pidfiles. It ensures
>> that the process name and pidfile contents match what it finds in the
>> process list to be sure it's not going to kill the wrong process. I can
>> alter sshguard's rc script to launch via daemon(8) so I can get a
>> pidfile again, but that seems silly.
> 
> I removed it thinking that I was duplicating what daemon(8) does. The
> original PID file code did not properly lock the PID file, so I thought
> to delegate to daemon(8) instead of rolling my own pidfile(3).

I did not have time to react to the release notes before, but I have to
concur with Mark that it is a pitty that this feature was removed.
Does not make FreeBSD life much easier.

And I'm not sure that the PIDfile needs to be locked.
Why should it be?

--WjW