[Bug 1036899] Re: Race condition in start-stop-daemon when using the --background and --make-pidfile options

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Title:
  Race condition in start-stop-daemon when using the --background and
  --make-pidfile options

Status in “dpkg” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
    When using the --background and --make-pidfile options. The parent process may
    exit before the child daemon process creates the pidfile and write the pid to
    the pidfile. This may lead to failure of --stop or --start, not finding a
    pidfile or finding an empty pidfile.

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