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older systems (and sadly some modern ones, as much as i'm trying to stop that habit in openrc, and most bsds still do this too), would have daemons start, fork to the background, and write their pid to a file, usually in /run
and then when you tell the init script to stop the given service, it would read the pidfile, (hopefully do some sanity checks), then send a TERM or KILL signal to that process
but then what happens if said daemon crashes, the pid wraps around, and something else is started under the pid written to that file? with luck the sanity checks make the operation fail, without luck you kill a random unrelated process
modern solution is called supervision, you run the daemons directly under a supervisor, without background forking -- so that you don't have to rely on a file that might get stale

2026-04-13 15:33:42 UTC

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yes, though not likely an overflow, but once it reaches kernel.pid_max (see https://social.vlhl.dev/notice/B5FqXqKZfAwq8VVpc8), it wraps around to the lowest unused pid
which is why pidfiles are *bad* for daemon management

2026-04-03 17:11:41 UTC

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i mean the coordinates on windows isn't the corners, but the sides
so, i'd cry to have brought a parallelogram monitor

2026-04-03 17:01:09 UTC

windows using 4 coordinates (top, right bottom, left) instead of 2 coordinates and 2 extents (x, y, width, height) is so painful

2025-08-30 00:19:40 UTC

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i mean a dependency is a dependency, if a project has a ton of them, why is it bad to have each be a package by itself?
(or am i missing something else that is wrong with their packaging)

2025-07-26 16:00:34 UTC

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no just the ones that have a common / standard-ish protocol and other programs might want to interact with
i.e. openrc has librc for interacting with the service manager, my fedi impl is based on my own libactivity, and so on

2025-07-26 15:55:11 UTC

another option: implement the whole git cli based on libgit2, and help improve libgit2 as a whole
it's kinda silly that git wasn't a library to begin with
#note1tuj…q7du

2025-07-26 15:36:58 UTC

would it be stupid/petty to fork git if/when they start hard depending on rust
my brain is a mess

2025-05-12 21:46:33 UTC

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isn't the whole point of airsoft to be realistic replicas (plus orange tip) so people can play pretend war? that's how they've always been presented to me

2024-11-06 21:28:33 UTC

what are posix complient shells that support arrays in one shape or another?
(aside from bash)
(zsh doesn't zsh's posix complience is broken)

2024-09-16 19:30:30 UTC

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tbh if i'm doing something that gets unreadable in shell, it's not a thing i should be using shell for, and instead should use either lua, python, or even c
but the things i do use shell for, are kinda annoying to do python, like chaining many programs in a row, anything but shell i need to juggle std{in,out}

2024-09-11 15:31:36 UTC

people really need to stop saying "wayland is ready for everyone", take a step back, and understand people have different setups, some of those where wayland is definitively *not* ready for
i love wayland, it is mostly ready for me, and i hope one day it'll be ready for more people, but as is, not yet for everyone