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On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 02:05:21 +0200, Joan Picanyol i Puig wrote:

> * Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> [20050531 21:07]:
>> On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 10:28:25AM -0400, Paul Jarc wrote:
>> > 
>> > Environment variables make that easy.  How about setting $RUN_STATUS?
>> 
>> But on the other hand this is a change to the process state of all
>> service daemons, currently their environment is well-defined through
>> /etc/runit/2, or runsvdir-start.
>> 
>> What about adding the return code to ./supervise/status?
> 
> I usually empty the environment in my run scripts, so I'd prefer this
> solution.

I thought the format of supervise/status was opaque, and prone to changing
between releases. Am I incorrect? (Certainly, it doesn't look trivial to
parse from a shell script).

Also, what's the status of this enhancement?