Re: permissions of external PID file

On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 09:51:45PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> The external PID file, if configured, is currently generated with 600
> permissions, which results from the umask setting in the postmaster.  I
> think it would be nicer if we could make that 644.
> 
> I have often dealt with scripts and such that look through PID files
> in /var/run, and it's always annoying when some PID file is not readable
> for some reason or no reason at all.  (One simple benefit is that you
> don't need extra privileges to check whether the process is alive.)
> Almost all PID files on my system are world-readable now.

+1 for making this world-readable.

Cheers,
David.
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