checking config outputs a pid file

[Jeffrey 'jf' Lim]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru> wrote:

> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:53:45AM +0800, Cherife Li wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Has anyone noticed that `nginx -t' outputs an empty pid file while the
> > nginx process isn't running.
> >
> > I can only add
> >   if [ ! -s $PID ]; then
> >     rm -f $PID
> >   fi
> > to the check-config section of my rc file at the moment.
>
> Yes, nginx creates pid file on -t to test possibility to create it.
> It does not write any pid there and does not remove it.
> The later was done intentionally because there may be race condition
> when nginx startes, creates file, then someone run nginx -t, it creates
> file, and deletes it.
>

so in this case, if the file is there already, then running nginx -t will
assume that the file creation is ok, and not do anything to it? This seems
to be the case for my tests.

-jf

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