On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 06:38:11PM +0530, Vinayak Hegde wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 07:56:14 -0500, Satya ilugbom@thesatya.com wrote:
Well-behaved applications should tell you which pid files they are looking at when they stop because "pid file exists".
Yeah they should but many don't. Most programs (even in the OSS world) do not have good error checking and also may not print intelligible messages.
Problem not limited to OSS world. I've seen too many Visual Basic programs go "Run time error [hex code]".