From 8bffa1c19fd05f4f04dad4b5b98f85b94f23113c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Laurent Bercot Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 22:26:57 +0000 Subject: - added s6-fdholder-delete(c) - small s6-fdholder-* fixes - s6-fdholder documentation (in review) - s6_svstatus_* bugfix (thanks Olivier Brunel) --- doc/index.html | 104 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 87 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/index.html') diff --git a/doc/index.html b/doc/index.html index 57d1ef1..7fcf79a 100644 --- a/doc/index.html +++ b/doc/index.html @@ -22,9 +22,35 @@ s6 is a small suite of programs for UNIX, designed to allow process supervision (a.k.a service supervision), in the line of daemontools -and runit. +and runit, as well as various +operations on processes and daemons. It is meant to be a toolbox for +low-level process and service administration, providing different sets of +independent tools that can be used within or without the framework, and +that can be assembled together to achieve powerful functionality with +a very small amount of code.

+

+ Examples of things you can do by assembling together several programs +provided by s6: +

+ + +

The s6 documentation tries to be complete and self-contained; however, if you have never heard of process supervision before, you might be @@ -51,11 +77,14 @@ supervision that might help you understand the basics.

Licensing

@@ -120,32 +149,24 @@ a user interface to control those processes and monitor service states.
  • The s6-notifywhenup program
    • -

    Other daemontools-like utilities

    +

    Daemontools-like utilities

    These programs are a rewrite of the corresponding utilities from daemontools, with -a few extras. The -s6-log program is important in itself: it's -a powerful, scriptable, general-purpose filtering and logging tool -that can be used to entirely replace syslogd. It has many more -features than its multilog -counterpart. +a few extras.

    Fifodir management, notification and subscription

    @@ -174,6 +195,11 @@ synchronization.
  • The s6-ftrig-listen1 program
  • The s6-ftrig-listen program
    • +

    +

    +

    Local service management and access control

    @@ -203,14 +229,44 @@ synchronization.
  • The s6-sudod program
    • -

    Internal commands

    +

    Logging

    + +

    Timed lock acquisition

    + + +

    fd-holding, a.k.a. the sensible part of socket activation

    + + +

    +

    Libraries

    @@ -220,6 +276,7 @@ synchronization.
  • The ftrigr library interface
  • The s6lock library interface
  • The accessrules library interface
    • +
  • The s6-fdholder library interface

    • Definitions

    @@ -259,6 +316,10 @@ daemontools.) approach to process supervision, with the same goals.
  • perp, yet another slightly different approach to process supervision, also with the same goals.
    • +
  • nosh +is another suite of system-level utilities with similarities in the design +and approach. It is written in C++, though, and is coded in quite a +different way than the previous items on this list.

    • Other init systems

    @@ -302,5 +363,14 @@ software, and it's short. Expect more use of s6- in future skarnet.org software releases. And please avoid using that prefix for your own projects.

    +

    Footnotes

    + +
    +

    [1] + Take everything you read on that link with two or three salt shakers. +(This is true for anything written by the author of that document.) +

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