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diff --git a/doc/overview.html b/doc/overview.html index 84e2f62..eed9b9f 100644 --- a/doc/overview.html +++ b/doc/overview.html @@ -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> </ul> <p> |