From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/1309 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gerrit Pape Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: An idea for sv Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 12:03:36 +0000 Message-ID: <20061101120336.21951.qmail@3030a73c3b5ea5.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> References: <45433618.8040104@alex-smith.me.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162382610 19560 80.91.229.2 (1 Nov 2006 12:03:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 12:03:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: supervision-return-1545-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Wed Nov 01 13:03:26 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 1GfEoN-0002jR-4T for gcsg-supervision@gmane.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 13:03:15 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 20690 invoked by uid 76); 1 Nov 2006 12:03:36 -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 20685 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2006 12:03:36 -0000 Original-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Mail-Followup-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45433618.8040104@alex-smith.me.uk> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:1309 Archived-At: 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.