Hello,
Trying to use s6-rc, I have run into something that looks like a race
condition between s6-rc-init and s6-svscan.
The context: as a concrete project to test s6-rc, I am using it to
manage my X session, mainly for setup and supervising background tasks.
So I want s6-svscan to be the "root" process of my X session.
My first try what this (roughly, variables are self-explanatory and
"session" is my "root" bundle):
background { s6-svscan -st 0 $S6_SCANDIR }
if { s6-rc-init -c $S6_RC_COMPILED -l $S6_RC_LIVE $S6_SCANDIR }
s6-rc $VERBOSE -l $S6_RC_LIVE -u change session
The issue is that once s6-rc ends, s6-svscan is "reparented" to init and
I want to keep it attached the the login manager, so I refactored it to
this:
background {
if { s6-rc-init -c $S6_RC_COMPILED -l $S6_RC_LIVE $S6_SCANDIR }
s6-rc $VERBOSE -l $S6_RC_LIVE -u change session
}
s6-svscan -st 0 $S6_SCANDIR
Now it works as intended but s6-rc-init sometimes complains that
$S6_SCANDIR is not supervised (i.e. s6-svscan is not ready). I think
this could probably happen with the first solution too.
I have added "s6-sleep 1" before s6-rc-init to fix it, but I am
wondering if there is an more elegant yet simple way to handle this ?
Regards,
--
Guillaume.
