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diff --git a/doc/overview.html b/doc/overview.html index eed9b9f..18c5f29 100644 --- a/doc/overview.html +++ b/doc/overview.html @@ -346,7 +346,8 @@ s6 provides tools to do that: <li> The <a href="s6-svwait.html">s6-svwait</a>, <a href="s6-svlisten1.html">s6-svlisten1</a> and <a href="s6-svlisten.html">s6-svlisten</a> programs will wait until a set of -daemons is up, ready or down. </li> +daemons is up, ready, down (as soon as the <tt>./run</tt> process dies) or +really down (when the <tt>./finish</tt> process has also died). </li> <li> Unfortunately, a daemon being <em>up</em> does not mean that it is <em>ready</em>: <a href="notifywhenup.html">this page</a> goes into the details. s6 @@ -358,11 +359,13 @@ it. </li> </ul> <p> - For now, s6 does not provide a complete dependency management framework, + s6 does not provide a complete dependency management framework, i.e. a program to automatically start (or stop) a set of services in a specific order - that order being automatically computed from a graph of dependencies between services. - That functionality is planned for a future version of s6. + That functionality belongs to a <em>service manager</em>, and is +implemented for instance in the +<a href="http://skarnet.org/software/s6-rc/">s6-rc</a> package. </p> <h2> Additional utilities </h2> |