From 141abfdf5066ecaed37742d6985ef4834b1cafa0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 23:49:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] don't write a pid file

This was likely used to avoid multiple instances but this is supported for
several years.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
---
 offlineimap/init.py | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/offlineimap/init.py b/offlineimap/init.py
index 636db5d..6803fd8 100644
--- a/offlineimap/init.py
+++ b/offlineimap/init.py
@@ -323,13 +323,6 @@ class OfflineImap:
 
         self.config is supposed to have been correctly initialized
         already."""
-        try:
-            pidfd = open(self.config.getmetadatadir() + "/pid", "w")
-            pidfd.write(str(os.getpid()) + "\n")
-            pidfd.close()
-        except:
-            pass
-
         try:
             # Honor CLI --account option, only.
             # Accounts to sync are put into syncaccounts variable.