On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 16:46 -0700, Liane Praza wrote: > nwam would need to tell startd that it manages its child processes. It > can do that by launching subprocesses in their own contracts. > > Otherwise, startd just assumes that all processes that are launched are > part of the service, so any faults in any of them affect the entire service. > > While I'd love to write a psychic startd,
libpsychic.so is bound to show up in SFW at some point soon. ;-) > it's just not possible for us > to know what subprocess faults are critical, and which are handled by a > cleverly written service. Thus, we assume all faults are critical. > > (Remember, many libraries fork new processes. So not all services even > know they're creating subprocesses.) Right, and having nwamd exec ifconfig under a separate contract seems like a reasonable thing to do. Thanks, -Seb
