Re: daemontools respin?

On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Bruce Guenter wrote:

> > This is much easier with the synchronous SysV startup process, with
> > self-daemonizing services: By terminating the main process such a daemon
> > can indicate, that the daemonized subprocess is ready.
> 
> As much as I hate self-daemonizing services, this an advantage to them
> (possibly the only advantage IMNSHO).  Other signalling mechanisms could
> be devised, but they're not nearly so intrinsic.

How many self-daemonizing services actually do this? Most of the ones I've 
seen exit from the parent process as soon as possible, i.e. without 
waiting for any indication from the child process that it is fully 
ready.

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Charlie