> IMHO s6/daemontools and similar tools are just a helpers. > That is *exactly* what they are.
> They help to run as a unix daemon a program which is not written to be > a unix daemon. > No, sorry, you are wrong. They are supervisors, and as such they ensure any long-running job keeps running when it is supposed to. > Now they pretend to the role of init, which they are not. > they can be, if you want them to. Some can do this better than others. > And should not be. > lol, why not? > The program should be modified to be able to switch to background > itself. lol, why? S6 even forces such a program must not handle daemon mode itself. > That process must not "background itself": being run by a > supervision tree already makes it a "background" task. > You say this like it is a bad thing.
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