Added comment about running lp_load() before calling pidfile_create().

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/source/lib/pidfile.c b/source/lib/pidfile.c
index a9b2da0d7fd..fad5691e0ae 100644
--- a/source/lib/pidfile.c
+++ b/source/lib/pidfile.c
@@ -69,7 +69,10 @@ pid_t pidfile_pid(char *name)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-/* create a pid file in the lock directory. open it and leave it locked */
+/* Create a pid file in the lock directory. open it and leave it locked.
+   This must be done after a call to lp_load() as it uses the lp_lockdir()
+   function to generate the path to the pidfile. */
+
 void pidfile_create(char *name)
 {
 	int     fd;