[Pkg-dns-devel] Bug#867192: Bug#867192: Bug#867192: Bug#867192: Bug#867192: let systemd know about the pid file

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Fri 2017-07-14 14:19:01 -0400, Robert Edmonds wrote:
> Hm, that could work (but then we have to carry around "-p" in the
> service unit forever). I was thinking of a command-line parameter that
> takes an argument to the pidfile path (like "-p /run/unbound.pid") that
> takes precedence over the 'pidfile' value from the config file and the
> compiled in 'pidfile' default value. And then we set the default value
> for 'pidfile' to "" so that Unbound doesn't make a pidfile by default,
> and append "-p /run/unbound.pid" to $DAEMON_OPTS in /etc/init.d/unbound.

I figured if we went that way we'd get complaints about changing the
expected interface/contract with existing users of unbound -- you
upgrade the main binary on a system that *doesn't* have a
sensible/modern process manager, and then all of a sudden you don't get
the pidfile protections by default!

But i'd be fine with the change you propose, personally :)

> BTW, I don't think upstream really monitors that GitHub repository, it's
> a git-svn mirror. Posting patches to the mailing list or bugzilla seems
> to be their thing.

ok, fine:

    https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/bugs-script/show_bug.cgi?id=1349

feel free to submit an alternate patch there that implements the variant
you prefer.

Regards,

    --dkg