Re: new "sv status" flags and exit-tracking patch, and misc.

[Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 01:37:51PM -0600, Charles Duffy wrote:
> Gerrit Pape wrote:
> >I guess ./run and ./finish almost always will be scripts, more precisely
> >shell scripts.  runsv as of now maintains two files supervise/stat and
> >supervise/pid.  How about removing these files, and add a single one
> >containing the informations discussed here?:
> >
> >./supervise/info:
> ><state> <want> <pid> <uptime> <runrc> <finishrc>
> 
> Sounds reasonable. Are you willing to impliment this yourself, or do you 
> want me to?

Contribution alwys is nice, and I'm rather busy these days.  So I would
be happy if you can put work into it.  Thanks!

<uptime> will not work though in a file that's only written when some
status changes, this should be <starttime> instead I guess.  And you
suggested to differentiate the run/finish return codes by 'exited
cleanly', and 'killed by signal'.  To make numeric tests (`test "$runrc"
-lt 0`) work, how about 0-255 for 'exited cleanly', and -SIGNO for
'killed by signal'?  What if ./run or ./finish did not exit yet?

Thanks, Gerrit.