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diff --git a/doc/overview.html b/doc/overview.html index fd544a7..2a90ee6 100644 --- a/doc/overview.html +++ b/doc/overview.html @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ means bringing services up, or bringing services down. <p> Supervision suites manage <em>long-lived processes</em>, a.k.a <em>daemons</em>, and sometimes call them <em>services</em>. -With s6-rc, those things are different: a long-lived process is +With s6-rc, things are a little different: a long-lived process is also called a <em>longrun</em> and is a service, but a service does not have to be a longrun. There is a second kind of service, which is called a <em>oneshot</em>, and which represents a change @@ -85,12 +85,13 @@ are both oneshots, both longruns, or a oneshot and a longrun. </p> <p> - s6-rc also handles an additional kind of service: a <em>bundle</em>. -A bundle is just a collection of oneshots or longruns, described + Oneshots and longruns are called <em>atomic services</em>. +By opposition to atomic services, s6-rc also handles an +additional kind of service that it calls a <em>bundle</em>. +A bundle is just a collection of atomic services, described under a single name. A bundle definition can even contain other bundles, but ultimately a bundle will always represent a set of one -or more oneshots or longruns. A oneshot or longrun is called an -<em>atomic service</em>. +or more atomic services. Bundle names can be used anywhere with the s6-rc user interface, and they will internally be converted to a set of atomic services. An atomic service can depend on a bundle: it will @@ -147,8 +148,8 @@ supervision tree is up and running. s6-rc will only work if there is an active <a href="http://skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-svscan.html">s6-svscan</a> process monitoring a -<a href="http://skarnet.org/software/s6/scandir.html">scan</a> -directory. On Linux, for instance, it is possible to achieve such a state +<a href="http://skarnet.org/software/s6/scandir.html">scan +directory</a>. On Linux, for instance, it is possible to achieve such a state by using an init created by the <a href="http://skarnet.org/software/s6-linux-init/s6-linux-init-maker.html">s6-linux-init-maker</a> tool: when control reaches stage 2, s6-svscan is guaranteed to run, |