Holidays Brainstorming: instanced supervision

2015-12-25 Thread Laurent Bercot
Hello everyone, and happy holidays! In the past few years, there have been some bits and pieces of discussion about "instanced services", i.e. some kind of supervised service that would be able to create different instances of the process at will. But it never got very detailed. I'd like to

Some random thoughts on s6 and execline...

2015-12-25 Thread Casper Ti. Vector
* s6-ipcserver was moved from s6-networking to s6, but `s6:doc/ucspilogd.html' still refers to `s6-ipcserver' with a link to ; similarly, `s6:doc/s6-log.html' talks about "combined with the s6-networking package". * s6, s6-rc

Re: Some random thoughts on s6 and execline...

2015-12-25 Thread Laurent Bercot
* The fd holder in s6 seem unable to retain its state over restart, While I'm at it, here's the procedure to safely restart a s6-fdholder-daemon: 1. Start up another, temporary, s6-fdholder-daemon 2. s6-fdholder-transferdump the whole state from your main daemon to the tmp 3. Restart the

Re: Some random thoughts on s6 and execline...

2015-12-25 Thread Casper Ti. Vector
It's neat! I've really not thought of this. Many thanks. On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 09:02:12PM +0100, Laurent Bercot wrote: > While I'm at it, here's the procedure to safely restart a > s6-fdholder-daemon: > > 1. Start up another, temporary, s6-fdholder-daemon > 2. s6-fdholder-transferdump

Re: Some random thoughts on s6 and execline...

2015-12-25 Thread Laurent Bercot
On 2015-12-25 13:11, Casper Ti. Vector wrote: * s6-ipcserver was moved from s6-networking to s6, but `s6:doc/ucspilogd.html' still refers to `s6-ipcserver' with a link to ; similarly, `s6:doc/s6-log.html' talks about "combined