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Message-ID: <87lijwnmao.fsf@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 00:38:23 +0200
From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...il.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: Vision for new platform

Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx> writes:

> A much better approach for systems that need automatic
> stopping and starting of daemons would be to have a tiny
> daemon-supervisor process to handle it; small systems with a very
> "hands-on" admin not wanting to automate this could then skip the
> supervisor daemon and start/stop manually.

This is exactly what daemontools and variants do, with minimal code:
http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html
http://offog.org/code/freedt.html

-- 
Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen@...il.com>  http://chneukirchen.org

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