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diff --git a/doc/s6-tcpserver6.html b/doc/s6-tcpserver6.html index e571010..42f0c92 100644 --- a/doc/s6-tcpserver6.html +++ b/doc/s6-tcpserver6.html @@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ and stdout writing to it. </li> <li> Depending on the verbosity level, it logs what it does to stderr. </li> <li> It runs until killed by a signal. Depending on the received signal, it may kill its children before exiting. </li> + <li> s6-tcpserver6 actually doesn't do any of this itself. It is +a wrapper, rewriting the command line and executing into a chain +of programs that perform those duties. </li> </ul> <h2> Environment variables </h2> @@ -116,6 +119,16 @@ used to serve IPv4 addresses. </li> <li> s6-tcpserver6 will only work if the underlying <a href="http://skarnet.org/software/skalibs/">skalibs</a> has been compiled with IPv6 support. </li> + <li> In previous releases of s6-networking, s6-tcpserver6 was +monolithic: it did the work of +<a href="s6-tcpserver6-socketbinder.html">s6-tcpserver6-socketbinder</a>, +<a href="http://skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-applyuidgid.html">s6-applyuidgid</a> and +<a href="s6-tcpserver6d.html">s6-tcpserver6d</a> itself. The functionality has now +been split into several different programs because some service startup +schemes require the daemon to get its socket from an external +program instead of creating and binding it itself. The most obvious +application of this is upgrading a long-lived process without +losing existing connections. </li> </ul> </body> |