On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:06:54PM -0400, Charlie Brady wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> > Hm, I'm not sure yet.  What do you think about runsvdir running runsv in
> > a new process group, and not runsv the run script?
> 
> That'd satisfy my concern, which is that a buggy run script or daemon can
> easily take down the whole system. That's certainly not the resiliency
> which people are looking for when they use supervise/runit. Or at least, 
> which I'm looking for.
> 
> I have more than an academic interest in this issue, since I've been 
> bitten by it in the past.

Here's a patch to runsvdir that adds a -P option to run each runsv
process in a new session and process group.  You need to change
/etc/runit/2 or /sbin/runsvdir-start to enable it.

Regards, Gerrit.