From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/1097 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gerrit Pape Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: "bug" in runit's runsvdir Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 08:23:14 +0000 Message-ID: <20060401082314.11331.qmail@55cb31a6acae07.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> References: <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 1143879778 21498 80.91.229.2 (1 Apr 2006 08:22:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 08:22:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: supervision-return-1333-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Sat Apr 01 10:22:56 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 1FPbNn-0000bM-CE for gcsg-supervision@gmane.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2006 10:22:55 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 5573 invoked by uid 76); 1 Apr 2006 08:05:41 -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 5568 invoked from network); 1 Apr 2006 08:05:41 -0000 Original-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Mail-Followup-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060325225919.GE7784@odin.dempsky.org> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:1097 Archived-At: On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 04:59:19PM -0600, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: > 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? Yes, it differs and should be documented, I also happened to run into this. Thanks, Gerrit.