Re: Update on the progress of slew development

["Casper Ti. Vector" <caspervector@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 01:14:39PM +0800, Casper Ti. Vector wrote:
> Fixed (provided that sysvinit killall(8) is included in the container)
> in commit 3f246b20 the day before yesterday :)

I forgot to note that sending SIGHUP is unnecessary, and `rc.halt' did
this previously because of my misunderstanding of how the catch-all
logger was stopped.  `s6-svc -X /run/service/s6-svscan.log' lets the
corresponding `s6-supervise' process immediately close its fds 0/1/2 and
wait to exit after the catch-all logger exits, so the logger's input is
only connected to outputs of unlogged services (except for itself) not
stopped in `rc.fin' (which should not exist if `s6-rc -d change ...'
succeeded) and all stray processes that has inherited fds from parents
that directly wrote to the catch-all logger.

If no such processes remained at this moment, the SIGHUP (intended to
stop the catch-all logger because it is started with the `-b' option of
`s6-log') would have no effect; if they existed, sending SIGHUP
immediately after SIGTERM/SIGCONT would probably result in lost logs for
the final outputs of them, and simply letting the impending SIGKILL kill
the logger would be better.  Additionally, I have just realised that
these final logs were not considered by the current version of
`rc.halt', and then pushed commit 5911f892 to fix this.

> something like
> : /bin/importas PIA PIA
> : /usr/bin/env -i PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin PIA=${PIA}

Note that here correctness of the environment is ensured whether $PIA is
non-empty, empty or unset, because in the last case `importas' would
simply delete `PIA=${PIA}' from the command line to be exec()ed.  (Kudos
to Laurent, of course :)

-- 
My current OpenPGP key:
RSA4096/0x227E8CAAB7AA186C (expires: 2020.10.19)
7077 7781 B859 5166 AE07 0286 227E 8CAA B7AA 186C