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diff --git a/doc/faq.html b/doc/faq.html index d1df02e..17ba7c5 100644 --- a/doc/faq.html +++ b/doc/faq.html @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ new database will be used on the next boot, atomically update the link: The use of the <a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6-portable-utils/s6-ln.html">s6-ln</a> utility is recommended, because the -<a href="http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/ln.html">ln</a> +<a href="https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/ln.html">ln</a> standard actually <em>forbids</em> an atomic replacement, so utilities that follow it to the letter, for instance, <tt>ln</tt> from GNU coreutils, cannot be atomic: they first remove the old link, then create the new one. If you diff --git a/doc/index.html b/doc/index.html index d3cac1e..08cad57 100644 --- a/doc/index.html +++ b/doc/index.html @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ requirement if you link against the shared version of the skalibs library. </li> <p> s6-rc is free software. It is available under the -<a href="http://opensource.org/licenses/ISC">ISC license</a>. +<a href="https://opensource.org/licenses/ISC">ISC license</a>. </p> <h3> Download </h3> @@ -138,9 +138,9 @@ the previous versions of s6-rc and the current one. </li> <h3> Similar work </h3> <ul> - <li> <a href="http://jjacky.com/anopa/">anopa</a> is another service manager + <li> <a href="https://jjacky.com/anopa/">anopa</a> is another service manager for s6, with a similar design (but no compilation phase). </li> - <li> <a href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwares/nosh.html">nosh</a> + <li> <a href="https://jdebp.eu/Softwares/nosh/">nosh</a> is a complete init system and service manager for Unix. </li> </ul> diff --git a/doc/overview.html b/doc/overview.html index af62e68..9b375cf 100644 --- a/doc/overview.html +++ b/doc/overview.html @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ A bundle, however, cannot have dependencies. <p> Unlike other service managers such as -<a href="http://jjacky.com/anopa/">anopa</a>, s6-rc separates the +<a href="https://jjacky.com/anopa/">anopa</a>, s6-rc separates the work of analyzing a set of service definitions, resolving dependencies, and so on, from the work of actually applying the dependency graph to perform live state changes. The former is @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ script can actually be really short: an invocation of The administrator can make changes to the live state of the machine by manually calling <a href="s6-rc.html">s6-rc</a> again with the proper arguments. This is more powerful than the old -<a href="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/run-levels-intro.html">runlevels</a>: +<a href="https://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/run-levels-intro.html">runlevels</a>: it is possible to change the live state to <em>any</em> set of services, not only predefined ones. The only thing that s6-rc will not allow is a state that would break service dependencies; it diff --git a/doc/s6-rc-compile.html b/doc/s6-rc-compile.html index 048f6cb..c00ced8 100644 --- a/doc/s6-rc-compile.html +++ b/doc/s6-rc-compile.html @@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ command. </li> The <tt>examples/source</tt> subdirectory of the s6-rc package contains a set of service definition directories, which is actually a working, valid set for a Linux system running -<a href="http://busybox.net/">busybox</a> and the +<a href="https://busybox.net/">busybox</a> and the <a href="//skarnet.org/software/">skarnet.org</a> packages; of course, only the service definition set has been kept, and private information has been removed, so it won't work out-of-the-box without the proper specific files, diff --git a/doc/why.html b/doc/why.html index ccef157..b737c89 100644 --- a/doc/why.html +++ b/doc/why.html @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ <a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6/">s6</a>, <a href="http://smarden.org/runit/">runit</a>, <a href="http://b0llix.net/perp/">perp</a> or -<a href="http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html">daemontools</a> +<a href="https://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html">daemontools</a> define a <em>service</em> as a long-lived process, a.k.a daemon. They provide tools to run the daemon in a reproducible way in a controlled environment and keep it alive if it dies; @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ that still favor simplicity. Among them, for instance: </p> <ul> - <li> <a href="http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sysvinit">sysvinit</a>, + <li> <a href="https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sysvinit">sysvinit</a>, the historical GNU/Linux init system, and its companion set of <tt>/etc/rc.d</tt> init scripts that some distributions like to call <tt>sysv-rc</tt>. Note that sysvinit <em>does</em> have @@ -174,14 +174,15 @@ a joke. </p> <ul> - <li> <a href="http://upstart.ubuntu.com/">Upstart</a> was the first -one. On the front page, in the "feature highlights" section: -"Tasks and Services are started and stopped -by events. Events are generated as tasks and services are started -and stopped." Do you understand what that means? I don't. Also, -Upstart was the first system that used <tt>ptrace</tt> on the -processes it spawned in order to keep track of their forks. If -you don't know what that means: it was pure insanity. </li> + <li> <a href="https://upstart.ubuntu.com/">Upstart</a> was the first +one. The <em>concepts</em> in Upstart are actually pretty good: in +theory, it's a decent event-based service manager. Unfortunately, the +<em>implementation</em> is less than ideal. For instance, the service +file format is full of adhocisms breaking the principle of least surprise. +But most importantly, Upstart was the first system that used <tt>ptrace</tt> +on the processes it spawned in order to keep track of their forks. If +you don't know what that means: it's complete insanity, using a debug +feature in prodution, with heavy impact on security and efficiency. </li> <li> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launchd">launchd</a>, Darwin's init and service manager. The wikipedia page (linked here because Apple doesn't see fit to provide a documentation page for @@ -192,7 +193,7 @@ has to link in a XML parsing library, and it communicates with process 1 via a Mach-specific IPC mechanism. Is this the sleek, elegant design that Apple is usually known for? Stick to selling iPhones, guys. </li> - <li> <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/">systemd</a>, + <li> <a href="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/">systemd</a>, the main protagonist (or antagonist) in the "init wars". It has the same problems as launchd, up by an order of magnitude; <a href="//skarnet.org/software/systemd.html">here is why</a>. |