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From: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
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Subject: Re: runit - access to run script's exit status for finish?
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On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 10:28:25AM -0400, Paul Jarc wrote:
> Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> wrote:
> > But when starting to add arguments to service scripts, maybe there's
> > more information we can pass.
> 
> Environment variables make that easy.  How about setting $RUN_STATUS?

Yes, this would be more flexible.  But on the other hand this is a
change to the process state of all service daemons, currently their
environment is well-defined through /etc/runit/2, or runsvdir-start.

What about adding the return code to ./supervise/status?

Regards, Gerrit.