Re: s6 usability

From: Dewayne Geraghty <dewayne.geraghty_at_heuristicsystems.com.au>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2019 14:37:51 +1100

Hi Steve,

> Does the *user* need to code execline scripts, or is it just
> something the program does? If the former, then make a point that one
> doesn't need to use execline for s6-rc to be a very powerful startup
> system.

No the user doesn't need to write execline scripts. The following
equally applies to s6-rc.

Refer to:https://skarnet.org/software/s6/overview.html
for:
"execline makes it natural to handle long command lines made of massive
amounts of chain loading. This is by no means mandatory, though: a run
script can be any executable file you want, provided that running it
eventually results in a long-lived process with the same PID."


Regarding creating a s6 subdir of bin. I have some 1325 applications
(FreeBSD people call them ports), only 1 has a separate directory under bin.
Received on Mon Dec 02 2019 - 03:37:51 UTC

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