[ZODB-Dev] restart log weirdness

[Guido van Rossum]

> On 11 October 2002, Toby Dickenson said:
> > It is polite for daemon to chdir, rather than relying on whatever
> > directory its parent was using.  It avoid problems where a system
> > administrator cant unmount a filesystem, or delete a directory,
> > simply because it is 'in use' as the daemon's current directory.
> 
> I thought the standard thing to do was chdir("/"), to avoid *any*
> possible unmounting problems.

Since the daemon also has the storage file open (which lives in the
var directory), that's not gonna help.  var it is.

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