[cups.development] pid file

[Michael Sweet]

stan at saticed.me.uk wrote:
> ...
> As adding pid file writing capabilities doesn't seem that difficult (I
> guess just below "if (parent_signal == SIGUSR1)" in scheduler/main.c) I
> wondered if this had been omitted on purpose?

It has been omitted on purpose.

The problem with PID files is that you can't depend on them being
up-to-date.  If a server dies without removing its old PID file,
then you run the risk of killing the wrong process or thinking that
the server is still running...

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