From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/1046 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christian Neukirchen Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Re: Vision for new platform Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 00:38:23 +0200 Message-ID: <87lijwnmao.fsf@gmail.com> References: <20120518010620.GW163@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20120609192756.6e72f25e@sibserver.ru> <20120609074426.496a5e13@newbook> <20120609212411.GA163@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1339281522 26444 80.91.229.3 (9 Jun 2012 22:38:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 22:38:42 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-1047-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sun Jun 10 00:38:41 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SdUIq-0001tO-L3 for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 00:38:40 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 29870 invoked by uid 550); 9 Jun 2012 22:38:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 29862 invoked from network); 9 Jun 2012 22:38:40 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent :mime-version:content-type; bh=DEw6T+yeDnW3fnAkGF2l/cBaKJY6Oyfs7T6j4C4sfqs=; b=tKVANRYdRNDVlly8Xnt3vLFDmMp+51tm6+rEQMQrrAi3me3siHM22wRIXw2nOiBTuT Cpu8EhYnV2A+3vRMTKxcsXUuz+zXFtmONslSuhbRdkNyM+25YIBZcJ4eUIQXdjam6fxa ADNzmuWCvDM5WaN1qNQrLksM48PSYHMwoPCa4jefKKoQpRTcaQyvEaA6XvHpIqumkCaB /Gc23BBJMKA0EaIvjLb4mcGNq7wxy3qbABU0RGrACRxFwpjpsCa0PrT9ecM3waejBec3 0U/7obKkF1fdiCvX4/LkAXvWgRw0f9ZS7eYzeoMjmZEQv5ExExgJncs/utinzICXHh4g l37g== In-Reply-To: <20120609212411.GA163@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (Rich Felker's message of "Sat, 9 Jun 2012 17:24:11 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:1046 Archived-At: Rich Felker writes: > A much better approach for systems that need automatic > stopping and starting of daemons would be to have a tiny > daemon-supervisor process to handle it; small systems with a very > "hands-on" admin not wanting to automate this could then skip the > supervisor daemon and start/stop manually. This is exactly what daemontools and variants do, with minimal code: http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html http://offog.org/code/freedt.html -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org