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From: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
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Subject: Re: Trying to alter runit a little.
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On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 05:46:36PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
> Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> wrote:
> > If you change that, nothing else should break but this IPC, but you
> > then have the problem to find out the id of the runit process on
> > shutdown.
> 
> Would it work to run runit under runsv?

It's that at the time the init process pid 1 starts, normally only the
root filesystem is mounted, and is mounted read-only.  runsv needs to
create the ./supervise/ subdirectory and files in it.  The runit program
doesn't need anything on the filesystem with IPC working through
signals.

Regards, Gerrit.