Re: An idea for sv

[Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>]

On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 11:51:04AM +0100, Alex Smith wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I had a small idea for sv (feel free to tell me if it's stupid). What 
> about creating a library, libsv, that provides functions for interacting 
> with services and the sv program would just be a frontend for the 
> library. That way, it would be easier to write frontends for sv or 
> programs to manipulate services by using the library's functions rather 
> than interpreting the output of sv run with popen for example. I came up 
> with that idea when I was wondering how I could replace the current 
> Frugalware runlevel editor with one that works with runit once we 
> actually merge it into the main repository.
> 
> What do you think?

That may be useful, but I'm afraid, I currently don't have the time to
do this.

Regards, Gerrit.