3 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 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>
diff --git a/src/supervision/s6-svlink.c b/src/supervision/s6-svlink.c
index d36ceab..4f36f3d 100644
--- a/src/supervision/s6-svlink.c
+++ b/src/supervision/s6-svlink.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ static inline void checkservicedir (char const *s)
   size_t len = strlen(s) ;
   char fn[len + 9] ;
   memcpy(fn, s, len) ;
-  memcpy(fn + len, "/run", 4) ;
+  memcpy(fn + len, "/run", 5) ;
   if (stat(fn, &st) == -1) strerr_diefu2sys(111, "stat ", fn) ;
   if (!(st.st_mode & S_IXUSR)) strerr_dief2x(100, fn, " is not executable") ;
   r = s6_svc_ok(s) ;