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From: Charlie Brady <charlieb-supervision@budge.apana.org.au>
To: Earl Chew <earl_chew@agilent.com>
Cc: supervision@list.skarnet.org
Subject: Re: svwaitup races with sv
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:31:00 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0907241627160.18966@e-smith.charlieb.ott.istop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A635477.6030503@agilent.com>


On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Earl Chew wrote:

> The script below generates the following output:
>
>>  down: ./svc: 0s
>>  svwaitup: warning: ./svc: is down.
>>  .... WaitUp 1
>>  Try again
>>  run: ./svc: (pid 8496) 2s, normally down, want down
>
> It illustrates a race between runsv/sv and svwaitup.
...
> It would be better if sv(8) itself could synchronise.

I think that would be possible by making the fifo unbuffered, and having 
sv inject a nop command during 'sv status' (so sv would be blocked until 
runsv had processed previous commands). But that would change the timing 
of lots of current programs which call 'sv'.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-24 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-13  8:00 Bug for sv status in lsb mode Mathieu Poumeyrol
2009-07-13 13:42 ` Charlie Brady
2009-07-13 14:13   ` Mathieu Poumeyrol
2009-07-13 14:18     ` Mathieu Poumeyrol
2009-07-13 14:20       ` Charlie Brady
2009-07-17  9:08       ` Gerrit Pape
2009-07-17 10:02         ` Mathieu Poumeyrol
2009-07-17 11:08           ` Gerrit Pape
2009-07-19 14:52         ` sv sometimes won't issue down request Earl Chew
2009-07-19 17:14           ` svwaitup races with sv Earl Chew
2009-07-24 20:31             ` Charlie Brady [this message]
2009-07-24 20:35               ` Earl Chew
2009-07-24 20:18           ` sv sometimes won't issue down request (specifically, after 'sv once xxx') Charlie Brady
2009-07-24 20:38             ` Earl Chew
2009-07-24 21:01               ` Charlie Brady
2009-07-25 19:49                 ` Joan Picanyol i Puig
2009-07-27  9:09           ` sv sometimes won't issue down request Gerrit Pape
2009-07-27 17:39             ` Earl Chew
2010-05-31 19:54         ` Bug for sv status in lsb mode Erik Wright
2010-06-03  9:04           ` Gerrit Pape
2010-06-03 14:12             ` Erik Wright

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