From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 07:15:56 +0000 (+0900)
Subject: man: drop reference to file locking for PID file creation from daemon(7)
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man: drop reference to file locking for PID file creation from daemon(7)

File locking is usually a bad idea, don't suggest using it.
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diff --git a/man/daemon.xml b/man/daemon.xml
index b1f43f559..202b80eaa 100644
--- a/man/daemon.xml
+++ b/man/daemon.xml
@@ -158,9 +158,7 @@
                                 it is verified at the same time that
                                 the PID previously stored in the PID
                                 file no longer exists or belongs to a
-                                foreign process. Commonly, some kind of
-                                file locking is employed to implement
-                                this logic.</para></listitem>
+                                foreign process.</para></listitem>
 
                                 <listitem><para>In the daemon process,
                                 drop privileges, if possible and