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On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 04:01:54PM -0500, Charlie Brady wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> > I'm not sure that's a good idea.  The pid may change while the external
> > program is running, better let the runsv program send the signals to the
> > service.
> 
> I don't know how that would be possible if you wanted a custom handler to 
> do something special and then pass the signal on to the daemon. The custom 
> handler would have no way of asking the runsv process to deliver the signal,
> correct?

If the program exits with a return code other than zero, runsv still
will be sending the signal.  The program cannot adjust which signal, but
I think that's what the command given via runsvctrl is for.

Regards, Gerrit.