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From: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: iproute2: make arpd daemon write pid file on fork
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:42:08 -0700 (PDT)
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----- Original Message -----

> 
>>  The included patch makes arpd write it's own pid file after fork, in a 
> common 
>>  LSB fashion, so as to better inter-operate with start up scripts. Removal 
> of 
>>  stale pid files is handled elsewhere.
> 
> I already checked in a version which has the -p pidfile option.
>

Thanks for that.
It will be enough for arpd to fit with the rest of init scripts.