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authorLaurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>2015-07-14 20:11:53 +0000
committerLaurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>2015-07-14 20:11:53 +0000
commit9fdde3fe9f514f021728db63f387593c273f028e (patch)
treedd2eb58f790451318916ce66c1cfc701b69ff821 /doc
parent08662f8255b6f168b75abc997769b41b69559082 (diff)
downloads6-rc-9fdde3fe9f514f021728db63f387593c273f028e.tar.xz
Various bugfixes, thanks Colin Booth
(haven't touched the timeouts yet)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/index.html7
-rw-r--r--doc/s6-rc-init.html4
-rw-r--r--doc/s6-rc.html11
3 files changed, 13 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/index.html b/doc/index.html
index 4f717be..e9a70b4 100644
--- a/doc/index.html
+++ b/doc/index.html
@@ -131,12 +131,5 @@ for s6, with a similar design (but no compilation phase). </li>
is a complete init system and service manager for Unix. </li>
</ul>
-<h3> Discussion </h3>
-
-<ul>
- <li> <tt>s6-rc</tt> is discussed on the
-<a href="http://skarnet.org/lists.html#skaware">skaware</a> mailing-list. </li>
-</ul>
-
</body>
</html>
diff --git a/doc/s6-rc-init.html b/doc/s6-rc-init.html
index f2bd8e1..39d11a7 100644
--- a/doc/s6-rc-init.html
+++ b/doc/s6-rc-init.html
@@ -77,7 +77,9 @@ filesystem. Default is
<p>
Administrators should invoke <tt>s6-rc-init</tt> once, in their
-early boot scripts, after s6-svscan is functional but before any
+early boot scripts, after s6-svscan is functional and ready to
+supervise longrun services (and after its catch-all logger, if
+any, has started), but before any
other initialization. (The rest of the initialization can be
written as a set of s6-rc services, and performed by just one
invocation of the <a href="s6-rc.html">s6-rc change</a> command.)
diff --git a/doc/s6-rc.html b/doc/s6-rc.html
index 8d976d6..ae3e469 100644
--- a/doc/s6-rc.html
+++ b/doc/s6-rc.html
@@ -217,7 +217,16 @@ readiness notification, the
<a href="http://skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-svc.html">s6-svc</a>
command that is invoked by s6-rc will print a warning message, and
the transition will be considered successful as soon as the daemon
-is up.
+is up, i.e. as soon as the <tt>run</tt> script is executed by
+<a href="http://skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-supervise.html">s6-supervise</a>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ When a longrun service supports readiness notification, unless
+a nonzero timeout has been declared in the <tt>timeout-up</tt> file
+in the service definition directory,
+s6-rc will wait forever on an "up" transition for the notification
+to arrive. The transition will fail if a timeout occurs.
</p>
<p>