Dyson

Hi Justin!

start-stop-daemon is actually not useful on Dyson because of SMF.

And yes, it had portability problems and I had no motivation to fix it.

Usage of start-stop-daemon in exim4 cron job is quite trivial and has a fallback:

 88 # run tidydb as Debian-exim:Debian-exim.
 89 if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb ]; then
 90   cd $SPOOLDIR/db || exit 1
 91   if ! find $SPOOLDIR/db -maxdepth 1 -name '*.lockfile' -or -name 'log.*' \
 92     -or -type f -printf '%f\0' | \
 93       xargs -0r -n 1 \
 94       start-stop-daemon --start --exec /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb \
 95       --chuid Debian-exim:Debian-exim -- $SPOOLDIR > /dev/null; then
 96     # if we reach this, invoking exim_tidydb from start-stop-daemon has
 97     # failed, most probably because of libpam-tmpdir being in use
 98     # (see #373786 and #376165)
 99     find $SPOOLDIR/db -maxdepth 1 -name '*.lockfile' -or -name 'log.*' \
100     -or -type f -printf '%f\0' | \
101     su - --shell /bin/bash \
102          --command "xargs -0r -n 1 /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb $SPOOLDIR > /dev/null" \
103          Debian-exim
104   fi
105 fi

So I haven't decided yet: what to fix :-)

In any way having start-stop-daemon back will not hurt. Thanks!