Re: sv restart bug?

[Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 07:38:34PM +0200, Dra?en Ka?ar wrote:
> I think I've found a small bug in runit 1.7.0.
> 
> "sv restart <service>" prints out status information describing state
> before restart action. For example:
> 
> {donat}~# sv stop inserter
> ok: down: inserter: 0s, normally up
> {donat}~# sv status inserter
> down: inserter: 6s, normally up
> {donat}~# sv restart inserter
> ok: down: inserter: 13s, normally up      <=====
> {donat}~# sv status inserter 
> run: inserter: (pid 9437) 4s
> 
> 
> It seems to me it should have printed the new state, just like "sv start"
> does:
> 
> {donat}~# sv stop inserter 
> ok: down: inserter: 0s, normally up
> {donat}~# sv start inserter
> ok: run: inserter: (pid 9539) 0s

Yes, that looks like a bug, thanks for reporting.  From a first quick
glance it seems 'restart' lets sv send the commands 'term', 'cont', 'up'
-in that order-, and sv checks for 'term' to take effect instead of
'up'.

Regards, Gerrit.