On 25/02/2015 22:29, Patrick Mahoney wrote:
The loopwhilex keeps the pump primed, so to speak, so /service/s can
be stopped and started many times with readiness reporting working.
Otherwise, I'd need to restart /service/s/log as well as /service/s.
On the other hand, I have mostly idle backtick and head commands hanging
around.
How about
pipeline -w
{
cd ..
forbacktickx -d"\n" i { cat } s6-notifywhenup -f echo
}
...
?
If you don't mind using a shell, you can even have a single shell
lying around instead of both a forbacktickx and a cat process:
/bin/sh -c "while read ; do s6-notifywhenup -f echo ; done"
(But really, "s6-ftrig-notify event U" is less hackish than
"s6-notifywhenup echo".)
And this need for a "cat" process makes me think forbacktickx is
badly designed. It should parse its own stdin instead of spawning
a command; forbacktickx functionality can be achieved by combining
the parse-stdin program with pipeline.
--
Laurent
