Re: What would the correct way be to handle a program with a PID file being built to a prefix directory?

[Michael Lueck]

Greetings Gavin and Eric,

So with the present stable autoconf localstatedir would be the build variable to interrogate, correct? Interrogate in order to select the correct logic path when building the PID file fully qualified 
filespec. Or would it be safe to just append the ${localstatedir} to the PID file path always, and only when a prefix build option is specified would the path be prefixed?

I come with a fairly good understanding of building with prefix, though lack 
the C/C++ skills, while the core developers of this project seem simply not to 
understand the prefix concept.

Perhaps can you think of an OSS/FS project which uses a PID file and supports prefix and I could review said code to gain a better understanding of what an application looks like which supports both 
characteristics?

I am thankful,

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Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/