Add svnserve --pid-file option

Hi,

After having strugled with running RC testing and nightly test scripts in
parallell and having got problems killing the right svnserve, I really
feel the need to get the PID of th svnserve process somehow (not by
running ps and grepping for svnserve). I think this is pretty useful for
deamon administration tools and distributions as well.

So, I want to add a --pid-file option, taking a filename argument.
When svnserve has demonized (if it wants to), it writes the return value
of getpid() (and a newline) to that file. getpid() seems pretty portable
(Apache seems to use it directly).

I know that some people don't want svnserve to grow much further, but this
little improvement will probably be very helpful. This seems like a
twenty-liner or something to add.

Anyone objects?

Thanks,
//Peter

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Received on Fri Dec 16 20:52:12 2005