Re: init system daemon readiness protocol

2014-10-25 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard: > Readiness is not something that any service manager does reliably. > There's just not the consistent mechanism for it, yet. There probably never will be _one_ such mechanism. So your service manager needs to implement most, if not all, of them. systemd does exact

Re: init system daemon readiness protocol

2014-10-24 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 24 octobre 2014 23:04 +0100, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard  : >> All of them are relying on the fact that the monitored process won't >> fork. They are therefore not able to handle readiness and >> dependencies. > > Also untrue. Handling dependencies has nothing to do with forking, [...] Yes it

Re: init system daemon readiness protocol

2014-10-24 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Vincent Bernat: > All of them are relying on the fact that the monitored process won't fork. > They are therefore not able to handle readiness and dependencies. Also untrue. Handling dependencies has nothing to do with forking, and it's an error to think that anyone handles readiness. Readin