On 20/03/2016 18:53, James K. Lowden wrote: > The biggest problem with pidfiles IMO is stale files left over when the > process terminates abnormally. That could be remedied with a separate > daemon, modelled on syslogd, that would create, update and delete > them. Modify pidfile(3) to use the daemon, and you solve all three > problems. So I created pidfiled(8) here: http://www.netbsd.org/~roy/pidfiled.c http://www.netbsd.org/~roy/pidfiled.8 http://www.netbsd.org/~roy/pidfiled (rc.d script) And patched pidfile(3) to *optionally* use it here: http://www.netbsd.org/~roy/pidfile_lock.patch Constructive thoughts and comments welcome. Roy