pies-1.6 released [stable]

Hello,

I am pleased to announce the release of GNU pies version 1.6.

GNU pies is a program invocation and execution supervisor, a utility
that launches several programs and controls their execution.  The
programs can be started unconditionally or when a connection to a
particular network socket is requiested (inetd functionality).

Here are the compressed sources:
  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pies/pies-1.6.tar.gz    (1.7MB)
  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pies/pies-1.6.tar.bz2   (1.2MB)

Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pies/pies-1.6.tar.gz.sig
  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pies/pies-1.6.tar.bz2.sig

Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
  https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums:

05223b07ea0ae173041a2c4d65692a67  pies-1.6.tar.gz
46402d25b98b79f3d0abbf42293eaae8  pies-1.6.tar.bz2
64eaa5bb0b70de92c4e58de0bac0d55e47654d2e  pies-1.6.tar.gz
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The tarballs are signed with the following GPG key: 3602B07F55D0C732

Noteworthy changes in this release:

* Selecting preprocessor from the command line.

Two command line options are provided to select the preprocessor to
use instead of the default m4.  The --preprocessor=COMMAND option
instructs pies to use COMMAND as preprocessor.  The --no-preprocessor
option disables the use of the external preprocessor.

The new command line options are available both in pies and in the
client program piesctl.

* piesctl: fix order in which configuration files are examined

As stated in the documentation, program-specific configuration
file piesctl.conf takes precedence over pies.conf.

* Fix reloading of the configuration files.

* Fix compilation with --disable-sysvinit

Best regards,
Sergey


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