Re: [Exim] Small change to exiwhat

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Author: Nico Erfurth
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To: Dave C.
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Small change to exiwhat
Dave C. wrote:
> I wonder hoe difficult it would be to have _every_ exim process write
> its pid to a unique file when it starts, and remove it when it exits.
>
> eg
>
> /var/run/exim-4098
> /var/run/exim-4104
>
> (the content of the files would have the PID as well)
>
> This would make it easy to get all PID's of all running exims...


This will just replace one race condition, with another one ;)
And it will add more disk-io, i think exim does enough of this.

ciao