BIND 9.4.x vs 9.6.x - pid-file check and creation

[Thomas Schulz]

In article <glp3rc$23p1$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
Jan Arild =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lindstr=F8m?=  <jal at telenor.net> wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>ah, of course. I did not think about it as a Solaris bug.
>
>I patched BIND 9.6.0-P1 os.c code so it first checks for the diretory
>before it tries the fast approach of just running mkdir. And that of
>course works fine.
>
>But, since I do not want to run a self-patch BIND in production, I will
>instead run with pid-file "/var/run/named/named/named.pid" and be happy
>with that.

Just wondering.  Since /var/run is a swap (memory) based file system,
do you have to recreate those directories on each reboot?


>Thanks
>Jan Arild Lindstr
>
>
>At 15:35 27/01/2009, Mark Andrews wrote:
>
>>Looking at the publically available parts of SunSolve there are at least
>>bug reports about it.
>>
>>Requires Support Contract tmp_mkdir()/xmemfs_mkdir() inconsistent with oth=
>er xxxfs_mkdir() functions.  |  Open in a new window
>>bug 6253984
>>http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=3D1-1-6253984-1 - Sep =
>10, 2007
>> =
>
>>Requires Support Contract tmp_mkdir()/xmemfs_mkdir() inconsistent with oth=
>er xxxfs_mkdir() functions.  |  Open in a new window
>>bug 2152581
>>http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=3D1-1-2152581-1 - Sep =
>10, 2007 =
>
>>I don't have a copy of the POSIX standard that covers mkdir(2) to
>>see what it has to say about it.  Historically however EACCES on
>>search failure,  EEXIST if the file/directory exists, then EACCES on
>>parent directory write permissions was the error determination order.
>>
>>Mark
>>-- =
>
>>Mark Andrews, ISC
>>1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
>>PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark_Andrews at isc.org
>
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