[BRLTTY] Re: Write of brltty.pid on read-konly file systems at boot

[Mario Lang]

yan at mistigri.org (Yannick PLASSIARD) writes:

>> For a start, could you check that /var/run/brltty.pid properly contains
>> the pid of the currently running brltty?
>> 
>> Mmm, just to make sure: do you start brltty very early?  For instance,
>> before / is even mounted read and write, so that brltty may not be able
>> to write /var/run/brltty.pid? (and hence the upgrade script not be able
>> to find out that there is a brltty daemon running)
> 	I don't use Debian packages, but I'm starting Brltty before the 
> fsck (and so, before the remounting of / in read-write) so Brltty is 
> unable to write its /var/run/brltty.pid file.
>
> Fix proposal: If the Brltty process can't write to /var/run, could it 
> retry every n seconds (or minutes) until the writing is successful? Of 
> course, it should run normably bitween the start and the actual writing.

One other alternative would be the /lib/init/rw directory
that is a ram backed directory on Debian systems.
I guess we could use this for our brltty.pid as well...

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