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A comment on Bug 1202858 – Restarting squid results in deleting all files in hard-drive. Parent comment

Re:Bug 1202858 – Restarting squid results in deleting all fi... by koenigdavidmj on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @01:01PM (#9257831)
> It looks like a bug in the init script

Which is what happens when you have every daemon writing their own PID handling code, running as root, in a language whose interpolation rules nobody really understands.

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Re:Bug 1202858 – Restarting squid results in deleting all fi... by digi_owl on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @02:57AM (#9261617)
A legacy of sysv rather than having shell script handle init.

It is quite possible to have the script for PID handling be written once, and imported as needed.

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