Re: daemontools respin?

Bernhard Graf <bgware1 <at> augensalat.de> writes:
> >>> 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.

> > How many self-daemonizing services actually do this? Most of the ones I've 

> You are probably right. With SysV at least the init-script writer can
> try to fix this in individual ways, e.g. waiting for a PID-File to
> appear somewhere, waiting for a socket to become available, inserting
> sleep calls or simply relying on the startup-penalty of the next script.
> But first you don't have the same options with supervised daemons. When

I introduced the ./check script into runit for this purpose, see

 http://smarden.org/runit/sv.8.html

Regards, Gerrit.