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Subject: Re: Dependencies for runit (again)
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On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 01:32:53PM -0400, Paul Jarc wrote:
> Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> wrote:
> >  for i in `ls -1 ./depends/ 2>/dev/null || :`; do
> >    sv start $i || exit 1
> >    ! test -x /var/service/$i/check || $_ || exit 1
> >  done
> 
> It would be nice to have this bit as its own command, so a run script
> would only have to call something like "check-depends ./depends"
> without any further duplication of code between run scripts.

Yes, but it's ok to try it out; 'sv status' and/or 'sv start' maybe
should make use of the ./check scripts, and there's also this idea

 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/724

> Also, one benefit of letting the dependency's own runsv handle
> invocation of the check script is that it gives the check script the
> same consistent process state as the corresponding run script.

Hmm, it would be nice to have a guaranteed process state for ./check,
true.

Regards, Gerrit.