Re: 'syslogd -u' and pidfile creation

Mouse <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.userlevel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> [I]f you use 'syslogd -u user', then syslogd can't create a pidfile
> because that is done post-setuid.

What is the intended use case for -u?  Or, to put it another way, why
is this something that needs fixing?  My own reaction is that if you're
using -u, it's not appropriate to write the usual system-wide PID file
in its usual place, which makes this a feature rather than a bug.  So
there obviously is something different between what I've got in mind
and what you do.

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