Re: Creating PID file

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Chas. Owens <chas.owens@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 2:49 AM, Michael Barnes <MBarnes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:

> #make sure the last thing done is the removal of the pidfile
> #note: this happens even if we die
>END {
>   our $program;
>   unlink("/var/run/$program")
>      or die "could not delete /var/run/$program";
>}


As I have said (in fact it's said by Lincoln Stein), you should add a
"if" statement here to avoid the childs delete the pid file when
they're exiting.

if ( $$ == $pid ) { # $pid is parent's pid
    unlink $pidfile or die $!;
}

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