All models are wrong, some are useful, others not so much. There's no need to treat me with these banalities. The job model ought to have died with Upstart. It did not. Oh well.
> The core problem has already moved to a different area and that's why it really doesn't matter if they are doing a bad job.
Yes, I agree.
Still, the losers of history deserve their voice, too.
"Nobody" is a significant overstatement. A lot of (certainly not all) daemons that used to only support double-forking and PID files were fixed in the wake of daemontools. systemd and other init systems benefited from this work when they appeared. Still, PID files are subject to TOCTTOU regardless of what you use, so that's a given.
> The core problem has already moved to a different area and that's why it really doesn't matter if they are doing a bad job.
Yes, I agree.
Still, the losers of history deserve their voice, too.
"Nobody" is a significant overstatement. A lot of (certainly not all) daemons that used to only support double-forking and PID files were fixed in the wake of daemontools. systemd and other init systems benefited from this work when they appeared. Still, PID files are subject to TOCTTOU regardless of what you use, so that's a given.