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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: Question about pidfiles
From:       "Jules Bean" <jmlb2 () hermes ! cam ! ac ! uk>
Date:       1998-12-04 15:30:53
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--On Thu, Dec 3, 1998 9:49 pm +0000 "Tom Lees" <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk> wrote:


> I am currently packaging imwheel. However, there is a problem.
> imwheel wants to create a pidfile when it is run. However, this
> is fundamentally against the way X works - it means only ONE
> instance of imwheel can be run on one machine at a time (as
> opposed to one per X display, which would be the correct thing
> to do).
> 
> What cna I effectively do about this (or should I email the
> author and ask its behaviour be changed)?

I would patch the program so that the pid file has the name

imwheel_display:0.0.pid

Where 'display:0.0' is the contents of the DISPLAY environment variable.

Then forward the patches upstream :-)

Jules

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