On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 16:46, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]> wrote: > > Control: clone 922353 -2 > Control: reassign -2 dpkg > Control: retitle -2 start-stop-daemon should support socket-activation via > the sd_listen_fds(3) convention > Control: severity -2 wishlist > > On Fri 2019-02-15 04:34:47 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > Another option would be to implement this in start-stop-daemon, like > > the similar support for the systemd readiness protocol was recently > > implemented there too. > > Thanks for the suggestion! How widely-distributed is start-stop-daemon > outside of debian? I see it's been ported to OpenBSD; are they > syncing from upstream? > > The code i have is just python3 right now (simple argument parsing made > development much quicker), but it's not too terrible to do it in C. > > It's great to hear that the dpkg codebase would welcome such a feature > addition if it's done right! > > I'm opening this as a wishlist issue for dpkg just so we don't lose > track of it, since it might take me some cycles to get the C > implementation in shape. If anyone else wants to beat me to it, i > certainly wouldn't complain :)
Speaking of which, maybe it would also make sense to merge my changes in? https://bitbucket.org/andrew_shadura/start-stop-daemon-isolate/commits/8646be59e3fde0b22f84a842ef5729a5de08fd3b -- Cheers, Andrej
