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From: Wayne Marshall <wcm@b0llix.net>
To: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
Cc: supervision@list.skarnet.org
Subject: Re: [announce] perp-2.03: persistent process supervision
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:43:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110314194309.11ead71d@b0llix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3mxkxd1wt.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu>

On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:52:58 -0400
prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) wrote:

> Wayne Marshall <wcm@b0llix.net> wrote:
> > It is like worrying, what if init(8) should die?
> 
> If process 1 dies, the system halts, and we reboot it.  But
> perpd doesn't run as process 1, right?  So if it did receive
> SIGKILL, for whatever reason, it's not so obvious what would
> happen.
>

It is as deterministic as if svscan is SIGKILLed: the system is
unstable.

Wayne


  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-14 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-14 10:39 Wayne Marshall
2011-03-14 13:17 ` Laurent Bercot
2011-03-14 14:02   ` Wayne Marshall
2011-03-14 14:23     ` Robin Bowes
2011-03-14 14:34       ` Wayne Marshall
2011-03-14 16:47         ` Laurent Bercot
2011-03-14 17:39           ` Wayne Marshall
2011-03-14 17:52             ` Paul Jarc
2011-03-14 18:43               ` Wayne Marshall [this message]
2011-03-14 18:34             ` Laurent Bercot
2011-03-14 15:03       ` Charlie Brady
2011-03-14 15:35         ` Wayne Marshall
2011-03-14 17:02         ` Laurent Bercot
2011-03-14 17:42           ` Charlie Brady

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