From 52184ae3fbd62e3a1ca1661f5279b3c8308fcbd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kpdecker <kpdecker@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:20:51 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] forever.pidFilePath implementation

---
 lib/forever.js | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/forever.js b/lib/forever.js
index 26b59ace..8a170f91 100644
--- a/lib/forever.js
+++ b/lib/forever.js
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ forever.start = function (script, options) {
 //
 forever.startDaemon = function (script, options) {
   options.logFile = forever.logFilePath(options.logFile);
-  options.pidFile = path.join(config.pidPath, options.pidFile);
+  options.pidFile = forever.pidFilePath(options.pidFile);
   var runner = new forever.Monitor(script, options);
 
   daemon.daemonize(options.logFile, options.pidFile, function (err, pid) {
@@ -400,6 +400,19 @@ forever.logFilePath = function(logFile) {
   }
 };
 
+//
+// ### function pidFilePath (pidFile)
+// #### @logFile {string} Pid file path
+// Determines the full pid file path name
+//
+forever.pidFilePath = function(pidFile) {
+  if (pidFile && pidFile[0] === "/") {
+    return pidFile;
+  } else {
+    return path.join(config.pidPath, pidFile);
+  }
+};
+
 //
 // ### function checkProcess (pid, callback) 
 // #### @pid {string} pid of the process to check