On Jan 5, 2014 10:40 AM, "Russ Allbery" <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> Anthony Towns <aj@erisian.com.au> writes:
> > How hard would it be to write an external wrapper that converts the
> > systemd style socket activation to the SIGSTOP protocol (for upstart
> > invoking a systemd compatible daemon)?
On second thoughts, I think I meant this the other way around - systemd invoking an upstart compatible daemon, since it seems like upstart is more likely to support the systemd socket activation protocol than systemd is to support upstart's SIGSTOP protocol.
> The wrapper could fork
> and then exec the daemon in the *parent*, and have the *child* listen for
> the notification message and then kill(SIGSTOP) its parent and immediately
> exit. I wonder if that would actually work....
Nice :)
Cheers,
aj