]] Russell Coker | > in other words, a service is _always_ run | > in "foreground" mode. if it dies (i.e. a segfault signal is caught), | > the service is restarted automatically - by depinit (based on the | > signal alone). thus, the need for safe_mysql goes away entirely; the | > need for "apache2ctl start" goes away (i.e. you use apache2 -c | > FOREGROUND=True or whatever it is) and so on. in this way, there | > simply _is_ no need for a PID file, period. the relevant state | > information is contained within depinit itself, and you can guarantee | > that depinit will catch the signal. | | systemd does all that.
More importantly: systemd _allows_ them to do that, it doesn't require them. From the description of depinit, it sounds like it requires all daemons to be modified. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ocfqhuiw....@qurzaw.linpro.no
