s6-frontend
Software
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The s6-frontend-alias-sv program

s6-frontend-alias-sv implements runit's sv command over a s6 supervision tree, via native s6 commands.

Interface

     s6-frontend-alias-sv [ -v ] [ -w secs ] command services...

When s6-frontend has been configured with the --enable-aliases-runit option, the s6-frontend-alias-sv program is built, and at installation time, a sv symbolic link is created, pointing to it.

s6-frontend-alias-sv implements most of the functionality of sv, as closely as possible. When some functionality cannot be emulated on a s6 supervision tree, it prints an error message to stderr and exits 100.

Notes

• s6-frontend-alias-sv is a convenience program, written so that runit users can keep using sv to control their s6 services. However, it is not an "official" interface, because there are a few fundamental differences between the conception of runit and the conception of s6 that make sv a poor fit to accurately interface with the advanced features of s6. It is recommended that sv users become familiar with idiomatic s6 commands such as s6-svc, s6-svstat, and s6-svwait.