All, there is a branch in the OpenRC github repo called supervisor.
On that branch, I am working on a lightweight daemon supervisor that will be native to OpenRC. It is based on start-stop-daemon, but it will stay around and make sure that the daemon gets restarted if it dies. It is still very rough, and not ready for production, but at this point I would like to make everyone aware that it exists and ask folks to go over the code and provide comments. It can currently launch a daemon, and I still am working on making it restart a daemon if it dies. This will only work for non-forking daemons; the daemon should not fork and should not write a pid file. One of the big questions I have is about PAM usage. Do I still need to do that in this supervisor? If I open a PAM session, does it carry across forks? Thanks, William
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