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One `rm -f` Silently Disabled My Crash Detection

Community description: The daemon crashed, came back up, and recorded nothing. No gap, no warning, no log. The code was...

Dev.to | Oct 12, 2026 | Debashish Ghosal

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This separation — launcher writes the pid file, daemon reads it — matters for testing. It didn't know the pid file had been deleted. The daemon has no way to know the pid file was deleted.

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