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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2014-05-22 16:15:56 +0900
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2014-05-22 16:15:56 +0900
commitc4b834a4adfa4f858ed9fd07b300588ec1c3e20e (patch)
treed01a20abf59ed4c20a229caac04e6806b9ae24f7
parent3de03738fc970496d2d3da668c72767a48ccc41b (diff)
man: drop reference to file locking for PID file creation from daemon(7)
File locking is usually a bad idea, don't suggest using it.
-rw-r--r--man/daemon.xml4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/daemon.xml b/man/daemon.xml
index b1f43f5594..202b80eaa5 100644
--- a/man/daemon.xml
+++ b/man/daemon.xml
@@ -158,9 +158,7 @@
it is verified at the same time that
the PID previously stored in the PID
file no longer exists or belongs to a
- foreign process. Commonly, some kind of
- file locking is employed to implement
- this logic.</para></listitem>
+ foreign process.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>In the daemon process,
drop privileges, if possible and