Re: Emulate pipe-tools' finish script using daemontools?

Jos Backus <[email protected]> Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:40:12 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.syslog
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[Cc'd Gerrit Pape]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 03:29:43PM +0200, Laurent Bercot wrote:
> > So this is a solution for pipe-tools but the author says not to use it
> > ("pipe-tools needs to be rewritten from scratch; don't use it for now.").
> 
>  Yeah, as it is now, pipe-tools is very badly designed. It works, but
> I'm really ashamed of it. The new version needs only one week's worth of
> work to be ready for release... Kick me, I'm lazy.
 
*Kick* :-)

While you're at it, what do you think of the extra info Daryl's patch passes
into his postrun script? It sounds like a good idea to me.

> > Then there's runit but while its runsvdir command supports a finished script,
> > it doesn't seem to be passing the exit code and exit status as npt-supervise
> > does.
> 
>  That might be an excellent feature request for runit. :)
 
Gerrit, what are your thoughts on this?

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