[RFC] add --pidfile switch to write libo pid to a file

[Michael Meeks]

On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 14:41 +0100, Riccardo Magliocchetti wrote:
> The standard practice is to use just a plain file with the pid inside, 
> other tools won't parse an ini file just to find the pid.

	Seems unlikely to cause any real harm to me :-)

	Out of interest, did you see the liblibreoffice work that's Jack and I
started ? cf. smoketest/libtest.cxx and desktop/inc etc. I'd love to
move the current headless uses of libreoffice further up the stack, such
that the forking / managing of helper processes can be done in native
code, and (ultimately) pushed back down into LibreOffice as much as
possible.

	Of course, liblibreoffice still suffers from several problems -
bootstrapping nasties and so on ;-) but the basic idea is to allow a
faster, smaller headless experience and re-use of the filter logic;
alongside a dependency-free ~entirely virtual shared library.

	A longer way to go there though of course; help appreciated.

	ATB,

		Michael.

-- 
michael.meeks at suse.com  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot