POLL: what installations would you use process supervision in?

2015-03-20 Thread Avery Payne
This is a simple straw poll.  Please do *not* reply to the mailing list 
- I don't want to clog it with answers.  Send the replies directly to my 
personal email address instead.  The poll will remain open until March 
31, and I will publish results after that time.


POLL: what installations would you use process supervision in?

[ ] A hand-made / hand-customized Linux installation
[ ] A commercial installation (HP-UX, AIX, Pre-Oracle Solaris)
[ ] an installation made with LFS
[ ] an installation made with Gentoo
[ ] an installation made with Arch
[ ] an installation made with Debian / Ubuntu
[ ] an installation made with Fedora / Red Hat
[ ] an installation made with NetBSD/OpenBSD/FreeBSD
[ ] an installation made with DragonflyBSD
[ ] an installation made with Android Open Source Project
[ ] an installation not listed here (please give name and/or details)


Re: Is it worth having shell-agnostic ./run and ./finish?

2015-03-20 Thread Laurent Bercot

On 20/03/2015 23:05, Avery Payne wrote:

question is: how difficult would it be to write a ./finish script in
execline?


 It all depends on what you want to accomplish in your finish script,
of course. But there's no reason why it should be difficult: finish
scripts are essentially cleanup duties, and should be about the same
order of complexity as run scripts. So, yes, fairly easy.

 Note, however, than unlike run scripts, you're not likely to spawn
hundreds of finish scripts at the same time. So resource consumption
isn't a real problem, and removing a /bin/sh dependency in finish
scripts is purely artistic at that point, so don't make it a priority. ;)

--
 Laurent