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Re:Bug 1202858 – Restarting squid results in deleting all fi... by bonzini on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @06:00AM (#9255652)
This is RHEL6.7, it doesn't use systemd.
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Re:Bug 1202858 – Restarting squid results in deleting all fi... by 4ad on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @06:06AM (#9255666)
Oh, I see.
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Re:Bug 1202858 – Restarting squid results in deleting all fi... by Xylakant on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @06:20AM (#9255705)
Specifically, this bug would not have happened with systemd since systemd does not leave the handling of pid-files and pid-dirs to shell-scripts.
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Re:Bug 1202858 – Restarting squid results in deleting all fi... by bandrami on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @08:50AM (#9256220)
No, but if an analogous bug happened (systemd forgot to set an internal squidroot variable before clearing the squidroot, for instance), it would be much, much harder to figure out what was going on. Which is really what everybody's complaints boil down to.
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Re:Bug 1202858 – Restarting squid results in deleting all fi... by marcosdumay on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @07:25AM (#9255886)
That normally does not happen when handling pid-dirs, simply because those are standard and can be handled with standard tools.

Every time I've seen such a bug (honestly, not many), it was created when cleaning a temporary dir.

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