Cool, thanks! On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 8:34 PM, Laurent Bercot <ska-supervis...@skarnet.org > wrote:
> On 19/01/2016 18:44, Jan Olszak wrote: > >> Hi! >> I'm developing a daemon that will: >> - start/stop >> - send signals >> - check status >> of some services. >> >> This can be done via s6-svc or s6-svstat but: >> 1. Can I use the underlying calls from libs6? >> 2. Is this interface likely to change? >> > > If you mean send commands to s6-supervise via s6_svc_writectl(), > and read the status file via s6_svstatus_read(), then yes, you can use > those calls, and no, it's probably not going to change. > > The contents of a s6_svstatus_t structure, however, may be expanded in > the future. I think you can rely on backwards compatibility, i.e. all > the current fields will remain there with the same meaning; but do not > assume that they are no other fields. > > -- > Laurent > >
