Re: CVS commit: basesrc

[Andy Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>]

> Yes, the pidfile might be overwritten.

What PID file? The one I just introduced to stop log files getting mangled?

What are you talking about?

> But it's not normal for our daemons to prevent you from running multiple
> copies unless they require a lock on a resource, and that's not the case
> here.

newsyslog(8) is not a daemon by any stretch of the imagination.

> Can you please justify this a bit better? I think many of these recent
> newsyslog changes should have had discussion on tech-userlevel first. This
> would save you from having to back them out.

By all means, feel free to back out the whole shebang. :).