Github user wtogami commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/258#issuecomment-48475171
A post-start script to check a service such as couchdb would be an ugly
hack of a poll loop. It's much better for couchdb to notify when it knows it
is ready.
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