From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH] write the daemon's pid to a file. Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2013 16:35:40 +0100 Message-ID: <87zjobz777.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20131208111345.GA5130@intra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43140) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VpgOe-0001sH-OT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Dec 2013 10:35:59 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VpgOV-00047q-Aq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Dec 2013 10:35:52 -0500 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.83]:8562) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VpgOV-00047m-1B for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Dec 2013 10:35:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20131208111345.GA5130@intra> (John Darrington's message of "Sun, 8 Dec 2013 12:13:47 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: John Darrington Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org John Darrington skribis: > I don't know what you will think of this patch. But I found that it make= s=20 > running guix under debian a whole lot easier. I suspect the same will be > true for many other OSes too. How does it help exactly? On GNU, it=E2=80=99s started by dmd, which knows= its PID. I=E2=80=99d expect it to be the same with other init systems, no? Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.