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On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 02:54:46PM -0400, Paul Jarc wrote:
> To simplify code that looks for package directories.  Category
> directories (which may contain packages or subcategories) are sticky,
> and package directories are not sticky.  /package contains categories,
[...]

Woww! wait you lost me. Can you brief a little bit more on this? What is 
category directory?

> It's not documented.  supervise/ok is used by svok and svc to detect
[...]

Ok

> I run svscan as process 1, so I don't have to worry about it.
> 
> With svscanboot, I believe the intent is that init (on SysV systems,
> anyway) would restart svscan if it dies.  But it won't actually be
> restarted until readproctitle exits too, and that won't normally
> happen until all supervises exit.
[...]

Right, infact I guess it would start svscanboot which would in turn 
start svscan.

With warm regards,
-Payal