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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Martin Kraemer <ma...@apache.org> on 2004/02/05 14:01:43 UTC

[PATCH] More sensible behavior(?) when zero-length pid file is found

When, with httpd-2.1, the pid file exists but has a zero size, then
httpd refuses to start.

The attached patch changes this behavior and removes the empty pid file
(but only if it exists AND is empty) and logs a message:

  (17)File exists: Zero-length PID file logs/httpd.pid ignored.

to the console during startup.

Not a very frequent error indeed....

   Martin
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Re: [PATCH] More sensible behavior(?) when zero-length pid file is found

Posted by Justin Erenkrantz <ju...@erenkrantz.com>.

--On Thursday, February 5, 2004 2:01 PM +0100 Martin Kraemer 
<ma...@apache.org> wrote:

> When, with httpd-2.1, the pid file exists but has a zero size, then
> httpd refuses to start.
>
> The attached patch changes this behavior and removes the empty pid file
> (but only if it exists AND is empty) and logs a message:
>
>   (17)File exists: Zero-length PID file logs/httpd.pid ignored.

+1.  -- justin