>>>
>>>> The basic calls would be Start, Stop, Pause, Resume. Restart?
>>
>>> I suspect restart may be difficult to distinguish in certain
>>> contexts, this would make it an unreliable event. Do you have any
>>> particular use cas for something you'd like to do knowing that you
>>> are going to restart ?
>>>
>>
>> ...in particular I wonder what Restart and Pause/Resume look like in a
>> unikernel / microservice world, and how are they different from
>> Stop...Start. (Assuming immutability, compile-time configuration,
>> state persistence into Irmin, and so on.)
> 
> Micromanagement interface? :)
> 

I guess the use-case I had in mind was the radio modem connected to the
unikernel:

Stop -> inform participating unikernels that we're stopping, housekeep,
turn off the radio.
Pause -> housekeep, turn off the radio
Restart -> housekeep

Certainly 'Stop' is a must-have.

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