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@@ -350,8 +350,11 @@ daemons is up, ready or down. </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
-gives you <a href="s6-notifywhenup.html">a tool to use in your run
-scripts</a> so the supervisor knows when a service is <em>ready</em>. </li>
+supports a simple mechanism: when a daemon wants to signal that it is
+<em>ready</em>, it simply writes a newline to a file descriptor of its
+choice, and <a href="s6-supervise.html">s6-supervise</a> will pick that
+notification up and broadcast the information to processes waiting for
+it. </li>
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