[PATCH 8/8] Write PID file to the same directory as lock

Jānis Rukšāns <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.isdn.i4l.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On many systems /var/run is not world-writeable, and writing PID fails
if LCR is not being run as root. The lock directory, on the contrary,
must be writable by the lcr process, and can be configured by the user.
---
 main.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/main.c b/main.c
index 7290af9..95388a0 100644
--- a/main.c
+++ b/main.c
@@ -332,11 +332,13 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 		nooutput = 1;
 
 		/* write pid file */
-		pidfile = fopen("/var/run/lcr.pid","w");
+		SPRINT(lock, "%s/lcr.pid", options.lock);
+		pidfile = fopen(lock,"w");
 		if (pidfile) {
 			fprintf(pidfile, "%d\n", getpid());
 			fclose(pidfile);
-		}
+		} else
+			fprintf(stderr, "Failed to create PID file: %s\n", lock);
 	} else
 	/* if not start */
 	if (!!strcasecmp(argv[1],"start")) {
-- 
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