From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/1091 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Matthew R. Dempsky" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: "bug" in runit's runsvdir Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 16:59:19 -0600 Message-ID: <20060325225919.GE7784@odin.dempsky.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1143327584 4985 80.91.229.2 (25 Mar 2006 22:59:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 22:59:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: supervision-return-1327-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Sat Mar 25 23:59:43 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcsg-supervision@gmane.org Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14]) by ciao.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FNHjS-00008Y-HS for gcsg-supervision@gmane.org; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 23:59:42 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 29105 invoked by uid 76); 25 Mar 2006 23:00:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact supervision-help@list.skarnet.org; run by ezmlm List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: Original-Received: (qmail 29099 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2006 23:00:02 -0000 Original-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Mail-Followup-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Content-Disposition: inline Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:1091 Archived-At: runit's runsvdir stat(2)s the directory it's passed to determine if new services have been added or removed, but this doesn't handle the case of an existing symlink being changed to point to a different service. Reading runsvdir's man page, it doesn't say anything to imply that this operation should be handled, but I believe this differs in behavior from svscan from the daemontools package, so perhaps the difference should at least be documented?