File::PidSimple - Handle and create pidfiles easy

This document describes File::PidSimple version 0.05

    use File::PidSimple;

  # create a pid object, but do not write anything
  my $pid = File::PidSimple->new( piddir => File::Spec->tmpdir );

  # exit if we runnig already
  exit 0 if ( $pid->running );
  $pid->write;




  my $pid = File::PidSimple->new( piddir => File::Spec->tmpdir )->write_unless_running;
  exit 0 unless $pid;

  # for a daemon this is enough
  File::PidSimple->new->write_unless_running || exit 0;

This module make the handling of pidfiles simple.

  filename of the pidfiles.

return the directory, where the pidfile is stored

see new to set the piddir

  piddir         ( default => '/var/run' )
  progname       default basename($0)

writes a new pidfile. by default with the actual pid ( $$ ) or with

$pidfile->write

$pidfile->write(1234); # force to write

write the pidfile, but only if no old pidfile exists, or the process described in the old pidfile is not running anymore

progname ( basename )

remove the pidfile

This module Croak on fatal errors. Thats any failed IO operation on the pidfiles. open, close and print.

File::PidSimple requires no configuration files or environment variables.

only core modules

  Carp
  File::Basename
  File::Spec

None reported.

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-file-pidsimple@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.

Boris Zentner <bzm@2bz.de>

Copyright (c) 2007, Boris Zentner <bzm@2bz.de>. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.

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