[systemd-devel] [PATCH V4] service: Support environment variable substition for PIDFile=

Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering.net
Thu Apr 18 07:06:18 PDT 2013


On Thu, 18.04.13 08:46, Harald Hoyer (harald at redhat.com) wrote:

> > Then, the whole PID file story looks like a mess to me anyway, modern
> > daemons should not use PID files anyway... Even more, making them
> > configurable sounds really wrong. If this is about allowing
> > instantiation, then people can use %i in the PID file name, and be done
> > with it, but otherwise this sounds like a completely ridiculous
> > configuration option in sysconfig, like the first one to get rid
> > of... So the usecase already sounds really wrong to me, to start with.
> > 
> > This really sounds like a bug to me we should close WONTFIX with a nice
> > explanation. I know Tom won't like that, but well, sometimes we have to
> > say No to wishes.
> > 
> > I know I though different about this in January (and commented so in the
> > bug), but in retrospect I must disagree with myself on this...
> 
> fair enough, care to close the bug then?

OK, done!

Lennart

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