Re: CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/rtsold

[Luke Mewburn <lukem%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 08:56:07AM +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
  | > > no consistency guarantee between actual process table,
  | > Am I supposed to believe this is a widespread and serious problem in
  | > practice?  If so, I must have been hallucinating the last 20 years of
  | > using Unix.
  | 
  |     you may kill random victim if dangling /var/run/foo.pid stays.

With rc.d, only if the ``random victim'' is has argv[0] == "foo";
see check_pidfile() and _find_processes() in etc/rc.subr.

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