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| author | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2021-09-07 12:15:41 +0000 |
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| committer | Laurent Bercot <ska@appnovation.com> | 2021-09-07 12:15:41 +0000 |
| commit | f958b41a6e7a3124e95d48fe72bbf87fce0e2fce (patch) | |
| tree | f9a1a7c159c62cc84392f7bdcf97da1303649d0a /doc | |
| parent | d9488baa63351cafd237f5af15018ea5898ec0bc (diff) | |
| download | s6-f958b41a6e7a3124e95d48fe72bbf87fce0e2fce.tar.xz | |
svlink bugfix
Signed-off-by: Laurent Bercot <ska@appnovation.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/s6-svlink.html | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/s6-svunlink.html | 5 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/s6-svlink.html b/doc/s6-svlink.html index 7682e37..c1b9e94 100644 --- a/doc/s6-svlink.html +++ b/doc/s6-svlink.html @@ -105,6 +105,10 @@ supervisors one at a time, can be used instead. </li> <li> If <em>servicedir</em> is logged, i.e. <em>servicedir</em><tt>/log</tt> is also a valid service directory, then <tt>s6-svlink</tt> will wait until supervisors have been spawned for both the service and its logger. </li> + <li> <tt>s6-svlink</tt> sends a <a href="s6-svscanctl.html">s6-svscanctl -a</a> +command to <em>scandir</em>, which means that the system's view of services +will be refreshed. Depending on what links exist in <em>scandir</em>, other +services than <em>servicedir</em> may also appear. </li> <li> The symmetrical program to <tt>s6-svlink</tt> is named <a href="s6-svunlink.html">s6-svunlink</a>. </li> </ul> diff --git a/doc/s6-svunlink.html b/doc/s6-svunlink.html index f3642be..371f5bd 100644 --- a/doc/s6-svunlink.html +++ b/doc/s6-svunlink.html @@ -84,6 +84,11 @@ situations that are nominal failures. For instance, it returns 0 even if its timeout expires; the rationale is that there is no sensible action for the user to do if this error is reported. <tt>s6-svunlink</tt> only reports errors when they uncover a deeper problem in the system. </li> + <li> <tt>s6-svunlink</tt> sends a <a href="s6-svscanctl.html">s6-svscanctl -an</a> +command to <em>scandir</em>, which means that the system's view of services +will be refreshed and inactive services will be killed and unsupervised. +Depending on what links exist in <em>scandir</em>, new +services may appear, and other services than <em>name</em> may disappear. </li> </ul> </body> |