Write of brltty.pid on read-konly file systems at boot [Was: [BRLTTY] brltty deb update give still a eternal still unresolved problem]

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Andor Demarteau on 2006/12/18 at 15:48 +0100]

>would mean either a fork or threading of the application or a check on
>certian calls all the time.
>If you go for a check on certain function calls it will mean it will keep
>doing these calls during every operation even if the pid-file is written
>or not.

There's a better way to do it. Brltty now has an asynchronous event mechanism
which lends itslef very well to this kind of task. I've added this item to the
list.

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